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Minutes IETF123: add: Wed 14:00
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Meeting Minutes Adaptive DNS Discovery (add) WG
Date and time 2025-07-23 14:00
Title Minutes IETF123: add: Wed 14:00
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Last updated 2025-07-24

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Agenda ADD@IETF123

Meeting Materials, Links
Materials, Charter, Documents
ADD WG General Info
ADD Chairs: David Lawrence, Glenn Deen
Area Director: Éric Vyncke

Administration [10 min]

  • IETF NOTE WELL: Noted
  • Scribe selection: Wes Hardaker
  • Agenda bash: will talk about next steps for WG
  • Welcome from chairs
  • AD Comments

WG Doc - Handling Encrypted DNS Server Redirection 20m (Tommy Jensen)

  • Encrypted DNS Server Redirection slides
  • Since last time
    • implementation experience
    • self-redirection: suggestion to stop at where you reach the loop
      detected
    • any other thoughts on this or other issues?

Q&A

- Ben Schwartz: loops are a misconfiguration and we don't need to specify what to do.  A client shouldn't completely bail out and fail DNS queries, but the configuration is invalid.
    - Tommy: should we upgrade SHOULD NOT to MUST NOT for deploying loops?
    - Ben: I guess so
    - In the case of A -> B -> C -> B then the client should use one of A, B or C
    - loop detection should be by name instead of IP address
    - Tommy: but the draft currently does by address since names may resolve to different IPs under geolocation
- Jim Reed: I'm not sure it's a good idea to say let's not do loops.  People will do stupid things all the time anyway.  Clients need to take appropriate action.
    - Tommy: are you saying we should we shouldn't specify a number to detect?
    - Jim: we should simply say clients must detect loops without specifying further
- Florian Obser: Clients should be told not to do a lot of work
- Lars Eggert: I might abort this chain at any point because you made me wait too long.  If we stop at the loop detection, then everything would land on B which doesn't spread the load properly.  Agree with Ben that clients should pick A, B, or C
- Ben: self redirction is how we represent end-of-chain.  It just needs to be clear

AOB / Discussion (all)

Next steps for the working group - Eric (AD)

  • Éric: We made a plan with the chairs that after the redirection
    draft

    • can we discover a ADD server from from DNSD or IPCP
    • so we should stay open for a year, as the draft is simple?
    • suggest the chairs contact the authors
    • and of course the WG will stay open until the current draft is
      published
  • Glenn: separate work is being defined for how to do certificate
    provisioning for CPE devices

    • those drafts may become alive again
  • Ben S: there has been a lot of discussion about rechartering DNSOP

    • there are some new drafts for proposal for DNSOP that will
      generate a lot of discussion
    • there is a fair chance that work may line up better with ADD
      than the DNSOP revised charter
    • ADD is center of expertise for stub to resolver communication
  • Lars E: two new drafts are not urgent

    • CPE equestion may need a recharter discussion and it's not in
      scope currently
    • we can still close ADD and spin a new group instead
    • Glenn: note the drafts were already somewhat active in the group
      already
    • Eric: the new may be a new WG or BOF for the future for this
  • Tommy J: the DNSSD draft and it creates a standard on text records
    with a registry, which looks like a duplication of 9461 so am not
    happy with the particular solution

    • the justification for a DNSSD is that options have limited space
      vs an arbitrary text record
    • note that options can be concatinated
    • Glenn: we probably should have this discussion on the list
      because the authors aren't here today
  • Jim Reed: the new (not yet approved) DNSOP charter excludes DNSOP
    from doing work in related WGs

  • Tommy Pauly: other mechanism for how to express encryption DNS
    configuration has happened in other places
    • other groups can still do this sort of thing
    • we should still work toward sunsetting here and let that other
      work happen elsewhere