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Florian Obser
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Florian has over two decades of experience running authoritative DNS servers. Anything from simple two server deployments to globe-spanning anycast constellations with hundreds of nodes.

Florian is currently working as a Specialist Systems Engineer at the RIPE NCC, one of the five Regional Internet Registries. He is part of the team that runs k.root-servers.net.

Florian is a regular contributor to the OpenBSD project where his main focus is DNS and network auto configuration for IPv4 and IPv6.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair Extensions for Scalable DNS Service Discovery (dnssd) florian+ietf@narrans.de
Reviewer (See reviews) DNS Directorate (dnsdir) florian+ietf@narrans.de
Reviewer (See reviews) Internet Area Directorate (intdir) florian+ietf@narrans.de

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Username fobser

RFCs (0)

Florian has no RFCs as of 2026-04-12.

Active Internet-Drafts (1)

Expired Internet-Drafts (4)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity