The IESG has received a request from the Internet Architecture Board (iab) to consider the following document: - 'DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment Requirements' <draft-iab-2870bis-01.txt> as Best Current Practice The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2014-06-20. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract The DNS Root Name service is a critical part of the Internet architecture. The protocol and deployment requirements expected to be implemented for the DNS root name service are defined in this document. Operational requirements are out of scope. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-2870bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-2870bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.