CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Bill Manning/RICE

Minutes of the Domain Name System Working Group (DNS)

Agenda


   o Review proposed changes to RFC1348
   o Shuffle and load averaging RR support
   o Large zones problems & policy
   o IDPR
   o DNS values set from SNMP


RFC1348 Changes

The draft clears up the reverse lookup method and adds the inclusion of
Network Entity Titles.  NSAP prefix storage appears to be unworkable
without a seperate RR type.  If this feature is desired, then a new RR
may be added.  The label NSAP-PTR needs to be corrected, since it is not
a pointer.  Bill will post the revised draft shortly after the IETF.

IDPR

They need a RR to lable an administrative domain or AD. The plan is to
use a 32bit number.  Rob will follow up and make sure this happens.

Shuffle and Load

Mimi described a problem that needs to query for load average of a
logical cluster of machines.  Mel and Walter both came back with two
distinct ways to try and address this problem.  Mimi will write up a
draft that better covers the problem space.

Large Zones

Mike pointed out the problem with the com and edu zones.  EDU We should
recommend to the new NIC that following rule of thumb be used for new
assignments in the EDU zone:


   o xxxx.edu - 4 year schools that issue masters/phd degrees or
     equivalent.

   o xxxx.state.country - 2 year schools or those that issue associate
     or bachelor degrees.

   o xxxx.k12.state.country - pre-collage


The COM domain is still a problem.  We might recommend the second level

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be assigned an industry type.  The prblem would also be helped by
distributing the servers off root platforms.

MIB: IESG to decide on Propsed Standard this week.  The discussion
regarding setting values via SNMP will be discussed on the list.  Scott
will lead the charge here.

Attendees

Roland Acra              acra@cisco.com
Robert Austein           sra@epilogue.com
Bryan Beecher            bryan@umich.edu
David Conklin            conklin@jvnc.net
Chuck Cranor             chuck@maria.wustl.edu
Elise Gerich             epg@merit.edu
Heather Gray             heather@zk3.dec.com
Scott Kaplan             scott@ftp.com
David Katinsky           dmk@rutgers.edu
John Larson              jlarson@parc.xerox.com
Daniel Long              long@nic.near.net
E. Paul Love             loveep@sdsc.edu
Kent Malave              kent@bach.austin.ibm.com
Louis Mamakos            louie@ni.umd.edu
Bill Manning             bmanning@sesqui.net
Clifford Neuman          bcn@isi.edu
Andrew Partan            asp@uunet.uu.net
Mel Pleasant             pleasant@hardees.rutgers.edu
Cris Shuldiner           cws@ftp.com
Michael St.  Johns       stjohns@darpa.mil
Tang Tang                tt@virginia.edu
Walter Wimer             walter.wimer@andrew.cmu.edu
Miriam Zohar             zohar@watson.ibm.com



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