Concluded WG DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update (dnsind)
Note: The data for concluded WGs is occasionally incorrect.
| WG | Name | DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acronym | dnsind | ||
| Area | Internet Area (int) | ||
| State | Concluded | ||
| Charter | charter-ietf-dnsind-01 Approved | ||
| Document dependencies | |||
| Personnel | Chairs | Ólafur Guðmundsson, Randy Bush | |
| Mailing list | Address | namedroppers@internic.net | |
| To subscribe | namedroppers-request@internic.net | ||
| Archive | ftp://rs.internic.net/archives/namedroppers |
Final Charter for Working Group
The DNS Incremental Transfer, Notification, and Dynamic Update Working
Group is concerned with three areas of future DNS protocol
development:
1. Incremental Zone Transfer - As the sizes of some zone files have
grown
quite large, it is believed that a protocol addition to allow the
transfer of only the changed subset of a zone will reduce net
traffic
and the load on critical servers.
2. Change Notification - There can be large time intervals during which
at least one secondary has data that is inconsistent with the
primary.
The proposed ``notify'' mechanism (where the primary sends a message
to known secondaries) facilitates fast convergence of servers
vis-a-vis consistency of data in the zones.
3. Dynamic Update - The need to frequently update small portions of a
large zone and to have those updates propagate is perceived.
Milestones
| Date | Milestone | Associated documents |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 1996 | Submit Dynamic Update, Incremental Transfer, and Notify Internet-Drafts to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards. |
Done milestones
| Date | Milestone | Associated documents |
|---|---|---|
| Done | Submit revised Incremental Transfer and Notify Internet-Drafts. | |
| Done | Submit Incremental Transfer and Notify Internet-Drafts. | |
| Done | Consolidated review of draft-ietf-dns-ixfr-01.txt. |