DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update (dnsind)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
 
 Internet Area Director(s): 
     Frank Kastenholz  <kasten@ftp.com>
     Susan Thomson  <set@thumper.bellcore.com>
 
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Description of Working Group:
 
  The DNS Incremental Transfer, Notification, and Dynamic Update Working Group
  is concerned with three areas of future DNS protocol development:
 
    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.
 
    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.
 
    Dynamic Update - The need to frequently update small portions of a
    large zone and to have those updates propagate is perceived.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
     Done Consolidated review of draft-ietf-dns-ixfr-01.txt.                   

     Done Submit Incremental Transfer and Notify Internet-Drafts.              

   Mar 95 Submit revised Incremental Transfer and Notify Internet-Drafts.  
          Submit these revised documents for Proposed Standards.               

   Jul 95 Publish Dynamic Update Internet-Draft and submit for Proposed 
          Standard.                                                            


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised       I-D Title  <Filename>
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 Nov 94 Mar 95  <draft-ietf-dnsind-ixfr-01.txt> 
                Incremental Transfer in DNS                                    
 
 Dec 94 Mar 95  <draft-ietf-dnsind-notify-01.txt> 
                Notify: a mechanism for prompt notification of authority zone 
                changes                                                        
 
 Feb 95 Mar 95  <draft-ietf-dnsind-dynDNS-01.txt> 
                Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS)                

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.