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draft-blanchet-iab-2870bis







Network Working Group                                        M. Blanchet
Internet-Draft                                                  Viagenie
Obsoletes: 2870 (if approved)                                 L-J. Liman
Intended status: Best Current Practice                            Netnod
Expires: December 13, 2013                                 June 11, 2013


       DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment Requirements
                   draft-blanchet-iab-2870bis-00.txt

Abstract

   The DNS Root Name service are a critical part of the Internet
   architecture.  The protocol and deployment requirements expected to
   be implemented for the DNS root name services are defined in this
   document.  Operational requirements are out of scope.  This document
   obsoletes and reclassifies RFC2870 as Historic.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  RFC 2870 as Historic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Protocol Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Deployment Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   7.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

1.  Introduction

   [RFC2870] discusses protocol and operational requirements for root
   name servers for Internet's domain name system(DNS) protocol
   [RFC1035].  Since its publication, both protocol and operational
   requirements have evolved.  The concensus of the community is to
   separate the two sets of requirements into two documents.  The
   operational requirements are defined in [RSSAC-001].  This document
   defines the protocol requirements and some deployment requirements.

   The root servers are authoritative servers of the unique [RFC2826]
   root zone (".")[ROOTZONE], the root-servers.net zone, and the zone
   for the .arpa top-level domain[ARPAZONE].  This document describes
   the external interface of the root name servers from a protocol
   viewpoint of the service.  It specifies basic requirements for the
   Internet that DNS clients meet when interacting with a root name
   service over the public Internet.

   The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD,
   SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this
   document, are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, [RFC2119].

1.1.  RFC 2870 as Historic

   This document obsoletes and reclassifies [RFC2870] as Historic.




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2.  Protocol Requirements

   This section describes the high-level protocol requirements.
   Operative details are not discussed and are left to the operators of
   the root name service.

   The root name service:

      MUST implement [RFC1035] and [RFC2181].

      MUST support IPv4[RFC0791] and IPv6[RFC2460] transport of DNS
      queries and responses.

      MUST support UDP[RFC0768] and TCP[RFC0793] transport of DNS
      queries and responses.

      MUST generate checksums when sending UDP datagrams and MUST verify
      checksums when receiving UDP datagrams containing a non-zero
      checksum.

      MUST implement DNSSEC[RFC4035], as an authoritative name service
      serving signed zones accodingly.

3.  Deployment Requirements

   The root name service:

      MUST answer queries from any Internet host

      MUST serve the unique [RFC2826] root zone[ROOTZONE], the root-
      servers.net zone, and the zone for the .arpa top-level domain
      [ARPAZONE],[RFC3172].

4.  Security Considerations

   This document does not specify a new protocol.  However, the root
   name servers are a key component of the Internet architecture and
   play a key role into the overall security of the Internet[RFC2826].
   Specific security considerations on the DNS protocols are discussed
   in their respective specifications.  The security considerations on
   the operational side of the root name servers are discussed in
   [RSSAC-001].









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5.  IANA Considerations

   This document has no action for IANA.

6.  Acknowledgements

   Some text was taken from [RFC2870].  Andrew Sullivan, Simon
   Perreault, Jean-Philippe Dionne, Dave Thaler, Russ Housley, Alissa
   Cooper, Joe Abley, Joao Damas, Daniel Karrenberg, Jacques Latour,
   Eliot Lear, provided comments or text.

7.  Informative References

   [ARPAZONE]
              Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), ., ".ARPA Zone
              Management", , <http://www.iana.org/domains/arpa>.

   [RFC0768]  Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
              August 1980.

   [RFC0791]  Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791, September
              1981.

   [RFC0793]  Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7, RFC
              793, September 1981.

   [RFC1035]  Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
              specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2181]  Elz, R. and R. Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS
              Specification", RFC 2181, July 1997.

   [RFC2460]  Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
              (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.

   [RFC2826]  Internet Architecture Board, "IAB Technical Comment on the
              Unique DNS Root", RFC 2826, May 2000.

   [RFC2870]  Bush, R., Karrenberg, D., Kosters, M., and R. Plzak, "Root
              Name Server Operational Requirements", BCP 40, RFC 2870,
              June 2000.

   [RFC3172]  Huston, G., "Management Guidelines & Operational
              Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area
              Domain ("arpa")", BCP 52, RFC 3172, September 2001.



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   [RFC4035]  Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
              Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security
              Extensions", RFC 4035, March 2005.

   [ROOTZONE]
              , "Root Zone", , <ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/root.zone>.

   [RSSAC-001]
              Abley, J., Damas, J., Larson, M., Liman, L-J., Manderson,
              T., and B. Verd, "Service Expectations of Root Servers", ,
              <http://www.icann.org/en/groups/rssac>.

Authors' Addresses

   Marc Blanchet
   Viagenie
   246 Aberdeen
   Quebec, QC  G1R 2E1
   Canada

   Email: Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.ca
   URI:   http://viagenie.ca


   Lars-Johan Liman
   Netnod Internet Exchange
   Box 30194
   SE-104 25 Stockholm
   Sweden

   Email: liman@netnod.se
   URI:   http://www.netnod.se/



















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