[rssac-caucus] DNS Root Server System history - input

Wed Mar 9 16:12:41 UTC 2016

Dear RSSAC Caucus,

  The review period of the RSSAC report on History of Root Server System is concluded. In total, we have received eight comments. The RSSAC met and addressed all the comments (see attached).

  The RSSAC will incorporate these changes and make final edits to the document.

  Thank you again for your feedback!

Best
Steve

From: <rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Steve Sheng <steve.sheng at icann.org<mailto:steve.sheng at icann.org>>
Date: Monday, February 22, 2016 at 6:56 PM
To: Alejandro Acosta <alejandro at lacnic.net<mailto:alejandro at lacnic.net>>, "rssac-caucus at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>" <rssac-caucus at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>>
Subject: Re: [rssac-caucus] DNS Root Server System history - input

Hi Alejandro,

  Thank you for the input. We will work to address your feedback!

Best,
Steve

From: <rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Alejandro Acosta <alejandro at lacnic.net<mailto:alejandro at lacnic.net>>
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 9:42 PM
To: "rssac-caucus at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>" <rssac-caucus at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>>
Subject: Re: [rssac-caucus] DNS Root Server System history - input

Hello,
  I loved reading the document. it's great.
  But as usual, there still room for improvement, I don't like looking for perfection but if we can improve a little we should do it. I personally learned a lot while reading it.
  Here few comments:

1) In section 2. "History of Root Servers" I think we should be more descriptive, tell more history, give more context, what the problem was, problem distributing of the hosts.txt file, limitations, scalability, things like that. Saying this, IMHO I believe the history in the document can be better organized. It's a kind of shocking that it starts talking about the RFCs and just in the second paragraph it jumps into implementation of the first root server. I believe our target is technical people but the document is about the History of DNS. I wonder if we could include things like how much time took the first developments, how many people was involve, language program used for, etc. I personally enjoy these details

2) In few parts of the documents it's mentioned that (for example A-Root) is one of the 13 logical Internet Root Servers......, also in 2.7 under the "Adding Root Letters", this information is terrific!, I would love to expand in why the "limitation" is 13?. It's mention  Maybe this is not history but this is something that probably is not widely well explained. I don't think this point is particularly relevant, I just wanted to mention it just in case.

3) What do you think about dedicating a small paragraph about what DNS label compression is.., this concept is mentioned twice in the document. I might be wrong but my guess is that many people don't know about this.

4) I agree with Arturo's comments

5) And finally, I wonder if at the end, along with the appendix we could add something like an infographic [1] image

Regards,

Alejandro,

El 2/10/2016 a las 12:13 PM, Steve Sheng escribió:
Hi Arturo, thank you very much for the feedback! See my responses inline:

From: <<mailto:rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org>rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Arturo Servin <arturo.servin at gmail.com<mailto:arturo.servin at gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 7:16 PM
To: Tripti Sinha <<mailto:tsinha at umd.edu>tsinha at umd.edu<mailto:tsinha at umd.edu>>, "rssac-caucus at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>" <rssac-caucus at icann.org<mailto:rssac-caucus at icann.org>>
Subject: Re: [rssac-caucus] DNS Root Server System history - input

Hi

I really enjoyed reading the document. I am not young but unfortunately I wasn't yet there to have much of feedback.

In all the initial tables 1-2 the software was included, later in 3 there isn't any mention. I wonder if this is because there isn't information or if it wasn't consider relevant anymore.

Mostly it was considered not relevant anymore. The first two tables were to show software diversity in the root server system, and how it moved from mainframe to Unix and from JEEVEs to BIND.

Before moving to Section 3 it would be good to have a simple table summarizing the 13 root servers (you have the table at the Appendix but I think it would be interesting to have it at the end of the section as a nice conclusion.

Instead of duplicating 5.1, one way to address it to add a sentence or two in section 2.8 pointing to Appendix 5.1. But we will give more thought on this.

I know that you provide the statements verbatim from the operators, but there are some that do not read as well as the rest of the document. Could you ask some of the operators to rewrite a little some of the statements or provide them with some editorial suggestions?

The ones that I really like and could be used as an example are B, F, I and M. The ones that I suggest some rewrite are A (J it is much better and less commercial. A it is like a PR statement ...) For others I will suggest to make it more about the node history, why it was important to deploy and not so much about the people (which are important but not central to the document).

Noted!

Regards
as

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 at 14:00 Tripti Sinha <tsinha at umd.edu<mailto:tsinha at umd.edu>> wrote:
Dear Caucus,

In September 2015, the RSSAC held its first workshop to discuss issues related to the evolution of the root server system. The public report of the successful workshop is available on the RSSAC publications page<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rssac-publications-2014-05-12-en>.

To prepare for the workshop, the RSSAC compiled a document outlining the history of the root server system. This document provided a foundation for informed discussions at the workshop. The RSSAC has further reviewed the document since the workshop. Before publication, the RSSAC would like to seek input from the Caucus on this document.

The RSSAC would like to propose a process for Caucus review of the draft history of the root server system document. Through 04 March 2016, the RSSAC invites Caucus members to review the draft for factual correctness. At the end of the 4 week review period, the RSSAC will determine if further Caucus review is necessary before proceeding with publication. Please send your input directly to Steve Sheng at <mailto:steve.sheng at icann.org> steve.sheng at icann.org<mailto:steve.sheng at icann.org>.

The RSSAC hopes robust Caucus review will strengthen this important document on the history of the root server system. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any question or concerns. We look forward to your contributions.

Best regards,

Tripti Sinha and Brad Verd
RSSAC Co-Chairs
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