Hello, I've put together some high-level thoughts I had about DNS. I started thinking about this a year or so ago, and typed up an earlier version 9 months ago, but wasn't sure what to do with it. I've been struggling to figure out how to actually make the types of changes that I am thinking of - in the end I guess that the IETF is the best place for this work, if it is possible. So I finally turned them into a draft.
My main goal is to try to make the DNS a more agile protocol. Until
this is done, working in DNS will always be an exercise in pushing
boulders uphill.
GitHub page here for pull requests:
https://github.com/shane-kerr/DNSManifesto
I'm not really sure what the next steps are, if any. One fear I have is
that nobody is looking at the overall architecture of the DNS, and so
we'll end up muddling along one patch at a time, forever. Hopefully not!
Please let me know what you think. Also, I'll be in Berlin for the IETF
and happy to discuss things there, with or without beer. ;)
Cheers,
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Shane
p.s. I did this using Miek Gieben's awesome mmark tool. Writing a
Internet Draft in Markdown instead of XML is awesome. AWE-SOME.
https://github.com/miekg/mmark
--- Begin Message ---A new version of I-D, draft-shane-dns-manifesto-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Shane Kerr and posted to the IETF repository. Name: draft-shane-dns-manifesto Revision: 00 Title: A DNS Manifesto Document date: 2016-07-08 Group: Individual Submission Pages: 9 URL: https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shane-dns-manifesto-00.txt Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-shane-dns-manifesto/ Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shane-dns-manifesto-00 Abstract: The DNS protocol has many things to fix or improve, but this is difficult to do because changing the protocol is very hard. This paper explores the good and bad features of the protocol, and calls for an effort too make the protocol flexible enough that it can evolve in the future. Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. The IETF Secretariat
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