CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Paul Mockapetris/ ISI Minutes: The DNS WG met at PSC on thursday, and worked on three issues: 1. Future deployment of root name servers. Several parties believe that a better allocation of root servers is possible. A review of the current set suggests that while it is not time for a change yet, the end of the ARPANET suggests that more emphasis should be placed on locating root servers close to NSSes. In addition, political and technical sentiment for root name servers in Europe (and probably the Pacific as well) is growing. This could lead to unfortunate technical results since root servers see a lot of traffic and current algorithms could easily load proposed "fat pipes" to Europe. The political results could be unfortunate if root servers were deployed unwisely in Europe. The issues here are complicated. Paul Mockapetris promised to write a white paper on the subject. 2. Domain debugging tools. A new tool, called DOC, was described. DOC examines database associated with a particular zone and checks to see if it is set up correctly. This involves a lot of use of DIG and some grinding on the results. A test group for the new DOC and DIG tools was formed, with a mailing list at DANDY@ISI.EDU. The tools will be released to the general public after a beta test period. 3. New chair. Paul Mockapetris resigned as chair because of new duties. Phil Almquist (Almquist@jessica.stanford.edu) agreed to take over. 1 ATTENDEES Philip Almquist almquist@jessica.stanford.edu Dave Borman dab@cray.com David Burdelski daveb@ftp.com Curtis Cox zk0001@wnyos14.navy.mil Bruce Crabill bruce@umdd.umd.edu Ella Gardner epg@gateway.mitre.org Jack Hahn hahn@umd5.umd.edu Kathy Huber khuber@bbn.com Steve Hubert hubert@cac.washington.edu Brad Johnson bradcj@osf.org Phil Karn Karn@Thumper.Bellcore.Com Yoni Malachi yoni@cs.stanford.edu Paul Mockapetris pvm@isi.edu Tod Pike tgp@sei.cmu.edu ? Tim Seaver tas@mcnc.org Bob Stafford stafford@fac.cis.temple.edu Thomas Swazuk swazuk@fac.cis.temple.edu Edward Vielmeth emv@math.lsa.umich.edu Linda Winkler b32357@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov 2