The IESG has approved the following document: - 'DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment Requirements' (draft-iab-2870bis-03.txt) as Best Current Practice This document is the product of the Internet Architecture Board Working Group. The IESG contact person is Jari Arkko. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-2870bis/ Technical Summary 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. Working Group Summary A last call has been run on ietf@ietf.org mailing list, as well as many discussions in ICANN RSSAC around this topic. The RSSAC has updated its operational recommendations to match this document; together they replace the original RFC 2870. Document Quality The document has been extensively discussed in both the IETF and ICANN RSSAC. Personnel The responsible Area Director is Jari Arkko.
