The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Child To Parent Synchronization in DNS' (draft-ietf-dnsop-child-syncronization-07.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Domain Name System Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Joel Jaeggli and Benoit Claise. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-child-syncronization/ Technical Summary This document specifies how a child zone in DNS can publish records indicating to the parent zone to process and act on these records. It does this by introducing a new Resource Record Type named CSYNC Working Group Summary Initially the WG attempting to combine this work with the draft-ietf-dnsop-delegation-trust-maintainance document. However, it became clearer they were two different approaches, and the request was dropped. Document Quality Currently there are no implementations for the handling of this RRType. It was implied that some of the public domain software packages will deploy this, but have not so far. We believe the reviews have been thorough and substantial. Personnel Tim Wicinski is the Document Shepherd Joel Jaggeli is the Area Director The document Shepherd feels that this draft underwent a strong technical and editorial review, and there is no concern about the breath of reviews. RFC Editor Note One final editorial nit from Barry Leiba section 6 iana considerations ... Change the words to say "Standards Action", which is the term in 5226 that apllies. Saying RFC Required, even with the explanation, invites both IANA and other readers to misunderstand. So you could say, instead, 'Assignment of new flag values are subject to "Standards Action" specifications [RFC5226], publishing the definition of the new value in a standards track RFC.' ...
