Editor's Note: Revised minutes 9/4/92 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Win Treese/DEC Minutes of the Domain Name System Working Group (DNS) Win Treese chaired the meeting, as the regular Chair, Mike Reilly, could not attend. Agenda o The proposed DNS MIB. (Jon Saperia, DEC) o The NSAP resource record proposal. (RFC1348) o Possible guidelines for the assignment of names in top-level domains. (Mike St. Johns, Dept. of Defense) DNS MIB Jon Saperia handed out copies of the Internet Draft DNS MIB, which had previously been sent to the namedroppers mailing list. Jon had made several changes based on comments from the meeting in San Diego. There were a few minor comments, which Jon agreed to incorporate. There was some discussion of whether or not SNMP should be used to update authoritative date in a server. Jon Saperia and Rob Austein pointed out that this is a hard problem. Adding a new host, for example, involves adding new address and pointer records, and possibly HINFO and MX records. Should the server store the updated information in its permanent database? How are all replicas updated? Is the update protocol atomic for all replicas? Is it atomic at a single replica? How are changes authenticated and authorized? The Group awaits a proposal on updates; the MIB will be moved forward as it is now. NSAP Resource Records Bill Manning presented RFC1348, which proposes new resource records for NSAPs to support RFC1347 (the TUBA proposal). There were some minor suggestions for modifications to the proposal. We also discussed having a wildcard address query for any type of addresses. The Group concluded that it was best not to create a new class for extended addresses of any type, since the class mechanisms are not well-understood in practice. Naming Guidelines Mike St. Johns proposed establishing some naming guidelines for the top-level domains (e.g., COM, EDU), because they are growing quite rapidly, and may eventually overwhelm the capabilities of both humans 1 and computers to use them. There was quite a bit of discussion on this issue, but very little was resolved. A detailed proposal of guidelines is probably needed to further the discussion. Attendees Robert Austein sra@epilogue.com David Borman dab@cray.com Lida Carrier lida@apple.com Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu Mike St. Johns stjohns@umd5.umd.edu Jon Saperia saperia@tcpjon.ogo.dec.com Win Treese treese@crl.dec.com 2