DELEG: DNS back to the drawing board
The Domain Name System has been around for 42 years, and has certainly proven its worth as a scalable replacement for HOSTS.TXT. However, the current Internet is different from 42 years ago, Internet services (like DNS) are predominantly outsourced to specialized “operators”, and also Internet users’ security and privacy needs to be protected against adversaries.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has started a “deleg” Working Group with the purpose of revisiting the current DNS design, and trying to come up with a (backwards compatible) specification that will better match the current Internets’ operational practice and requirements.
This presentation will highlight the current shortcomings of DNS, with a bit of historical context to put it in perspective, and provide an overview of the ideas and the current work in the deleg working group, to address these shortcomings by revising the core of the DNS: the delegation.
Meet our speaker
Willem Toorop
Software Developer and Research engineer, NLnet Labs
Willem works at NLnet Labs as a Software Developer and Research Engineer. NLnet Labs is a not-for-profit organization developing open source software and open standards for the benefit of the Internet. Willem especially enjoys working together with others on new ideas and new standards. For example with developers from the other open source Domain Name System (DNS) software in hackathons to align implementations. Willem also sometimes takes measurements of the state of the internet and the DNS, to better see where the protocols and software can be improved. Willem loves his work, and loves talking about it and presenting.
In addition to his daily work, Willem is a Program Committee (PC) member for the Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG), a PC member for the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (DNS-OARC), a member of the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) Caucus and the representative for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZCER
