Re: DNSEXT future

[Mohsen Souissi <mohsen.souissi@nic.fr>]

My 2 eurocents below:

 On 26 Mar, Ólafur Guðmundsson /DNSEXT co-chair wrote:
 | 
 | Dear Colleagues:

[...]
 
 | For this reason we asked the meeting and our AD for guidance on what to do
 | with the working group. The three options are
 | 	A. keep the working group open
 | 	B. Put the group to sleep/hibernate
 | 	C. Close the working group

==> I'm in favour of option "B" if "sleep/hibernate" means that the wg:

- remains the reference forum for discussions and decision process
  wrt future new DNS extensions requests, either on the mailing-list
  (which should remain open in all cases), or at face2face IETF
  meetings when there is enough material to justify holding a session

- remains the reference wg for reporting any issues (specification bugs,
  clarification requests, ...) wrt to the running DNS protocol as a
  whole (ie the core DNS + the recent extensions including DNSSEC)

- is supposed to be the place (a sort of thinktank) where potential
  DNS2 design/specicications will/would take place


Otherwise, I would prefer option A. 


I believe that DNS protocol is so important for the whole Internet service
infrastructure that it would be wise to keep at least a background
activity on the three above-mentioned technical aspects...


Mohsen.

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