The IESG has received a request from the Domain Name System Operations WG (dnsop) to consider the following document: - 'Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on Loopback' <draft-ietf-dnsop-root-loopback-02.txt> as Informational RFC 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 2015-08-11. 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 Some DNS recursive resolvers have longer-than-desired round trip times to the closest DNS root server. Some DNS recursive resolver operators want to prevent snooping of requests sent to DNS root servers by third parties. Such resolvers can greatly decrease the round trip time and prevent observation of requests by running a copy of the full root zone on a loopback address (such as 127.0.0.1). This document shows how to start and maintain such a copy of the root zone that does not pose a threat to other users of the DNS, at the cost of adding some operational fragility for the operator. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-root-loopback/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-root-loopback/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2539/
