Hi everyone

> A new version of I-D, draft-muks-dnsop-dns-catalog-zones-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Mukund Sivaraman and posted to the
> IETF repository.
>
> Name:           draft-muks-dnsop-dns-catalog-zones
> Revision:       00
> Title:          DNS catalog zones
> Document date:  2015-10-18
> Group:          Individual Submission
> Pages:          20
> URL:            
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-muks-dnsop-dns-catalog-zones-00.txt
> Status:         
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-muks-dnsop-dns-catalog-zones/
> Htmlized:       
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-muks-dnsop-dns-catalog-zones-00
>
>
> Abstract:
>    This document describes a method for automatic zone catalog
>    provisioning and synchronization among DNS primary and secondary
>    nameservers by storing and transferring the catalogs as regular DNS
>    zones.

ISC is implementing a zone catalog synchronization method in BIND. This
is the first public draft of various ideas and suggestions that were
pooled together and is named "DNS catalog zones". Some prelimnary
versions of a requirements specification (named "Easy Add Zone
requirements") and drafts were shared with DNS operators to gather
input.

Reviews of this first public draft are requested specifically from DNS
implementations and DNS operators. We want it to be adopted across
implementations so that operators have an easy time synchronizing
catalogs regardless of the implementation. This is why this draft is
brought here for discussion so that others can participate in its
design.

A zone based representation has been attempted and implemented before
(see Vixie's Metazones cited in the draft). Catalog zones borrows some
ideas from it.

We haven't yet settled on a list of zone properties (zone options in
BIND terminology) that are to be synchronized across
implementations. Comments on suitable zone properties are requested.

A list of BIND 9.10 zone options can be found in its administrator
reference manual (BIND 9.10 ARM) in section 6.1.25:

https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/doc/bind-9-10/

We request implementations to consider if catalog zones would perform
well with your zone data structures (we considered a binary search
forest - an RB forest specifically for the BIND case).

The draft is currently under-specified. It requires further discussion
on open items, more elaborate nameserver behavior specification and
several items marked "TBD" to be completed. However at this stage, it is
more or less together as a design for public participation and comments.

                Mukund

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