DNS operations SIG APNIC 17 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia DNS-SIG Report DNS operations SIG APNIC 17 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

General The SIG-DNS meeting was held on Thursday 26 February 2004 60 people attended the meeting Five presentations

NZ Registry Services Nick Griffin provided an overview of the structure and key policies of the .NZ registry Commercial, Shared Registry system The software used to run the production registry system in New Zealand has been released as Open Source, free software

K-Root Operations Andrei Robachevsky, RIPE Overview of the root nameserver system Specific details of how RIPE are working to expand the footprint of the K root server Deployment plans for K include new sites in Asia Pacific

F-Root Deployments in AP George Michaelson, APNIC Overview of the deployments of F-Root nameserver nodes in Asia Pacific in 2003 Description of the role that APNIC is taking in coordinating critical infrastructure deployment within the region Additional root server installs expected in 2004 (I, F)

Lame Delegations George Michaelson, APNIC DNS-SIG Action dns-16-001, “Lame delegation cleanup revised” (prop-004-v001) Implementation has been deferred until Q2 2004, since other systems work has introduced dependencies

OARC João Damas, ISC Operations, Analysis and Research Centre (OARC) Provides a secure forum for researchers, operators, and software implementors to exchange data about critical DNS services Membership organisation, facilitated by ISC

Action dns-16-001 APNIC Secretariat to implement proposal "Lame delegation cleanup revised" (prop-004-v001). Implementation deferred until Q2 2004.

Action add-15-002 "Secretariat to refer discussion of signing the DNS root to the DNS Ops SIG. UPDATE the original author has been contacted for more information, but this has not yet been received." Referred to me by Policy WG Author, Johan Ihren, wishes to withdraw this proposal