This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/20/92 Minutes of the IETF Domain Name System (DNS) Working Group Meeting Date: March 18th, 1992 Location: San diego, California Submitted by: Michael Reilly, DNS WG cahir The announced purpose of the DNS working group meeting held at the San Diego IETF meeting was to discuss the DNS MIB proposed by Jon Saperia. A draft of the proposed MIB was circulated on the namedroppers mailing list approximately two weeks before the San Diego meeting. The meeting opened with a proposal from Mike St. Johns that the WG write a policy statement describing the addition of subdomains to one of the existing top level domains. The policy would help answer such questions as "Should elementary and/or high schools be included in the EDU domain?" or "Should all businesses, regardless of size be subdomains of the COM domain?". He proposed that we work with Jon Postel to insure that domains which didn't meet the criteria for inclusion within a domain would be registered in a more general domain. Mike indicated that the MIL domain already had such a policy statement. He was asked to send a copy to the namedroppers mailing list as a starting point for further discussions. On behalf of the DNS WG, the WG chair will ask the IESG for help in determining if this is something we should pursue. As we began discussion of the proposed MIB Rob Austein passed around copies of an alternative proposal. Since this new proposal had not previously been circulated the WG was not able compare it with the original proposal. Much of the meeting was taken up by a discussion of the differences between the two documents. At the conclusion of the discussion the WG asked if a single proposal could be produced incorporating features of both of the original proposals. Rob and Jon agreed to work on a common proposal which they both could support. Since the WG meeting the principle authors of the two MIB proposals have been Working together to resolve the differences between the proposals. It is expected that a revised proposal will be ready for discussion at the next WG meeting. Any remaining differences will be worked out at that time.