[dns-wg] draft for revised DNS wg charter

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Dear DNS wg members,

during the last couple of meetings we have exercised the merger of the former
DNR Forum and the DNS working group. It seemed that both audiences had
significant overlap and obviously have been interested in each other's
work and topics. So, at the end of the last meeting slot at RIPE 47 the
people in the room were in favour of combining the efforts into a single
working group covering all issues around the DNS and domain names.

The dns wg's charter as it currently is documented on the wg's homepage

	http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/

is too narrowly focused anyway, so the chairs would like to suggest the
following text as a basis for discussion for our new working group charter:

     The DNS Working Group discusses current DNS related issues in
     technology and operations. The WG supports deployment of 
     DNS and DNS-related protocol components by collecting
     experience and documenting current practice and recommendations.
     It therefore provides a mechanism for exchanging practical and
     operational experience with organisations like CENTR and the IETF. 

     The WG discusses DNS software implementations, especially security 
     and scalability aspects as well as performance and interoperability
     considerations. DNS quality and other factors that may affect the
     stability of the DNS system are also discussed by the WG. 

     The DNS WG provides a forum for the Registry and Registrar community.
     It discusses the technical and operational issues arising from
     registration policies with a specific focus on the deployment of
     new and emerging features. 

The charter is intended to reflect what the WG has been doing during the
last couple of RIPE meetings.

Please send in feedback! You are invited to comment and/or suggest changes
and if you're just happy with it - please say so, too.
Given that a holiday season is approaching for many of us, the comment period
will *end* at 2004-04-19.

- -Peter

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