SWITCHlan Services: DNS References

Books

DNS and BIND, 5th Ed.: Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz, May 2006, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN: 0-596-10057-4
DNS & Bind Cookbook, First Edition: Cricket Liu, October 2002, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN: 0-596-00410-9
The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND: Nicolai Langfeldt, September 2000, Que, ISBN: 0-789-72273-9
DNS on Windows NT: Paul Albitz, Matt Larson, Cricket Liu, October 1998, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN: 1-565-92511-4
Windows 2000 DNS: Jeffrey Graham, Andrew Daniels, Roger Abell, Herman L. Knief, April 2000, New Riders Publishing, ISBN: 0-735-70973-4
Windows 2000 Dynamic DNS: Concise Guide: Andy Ruth, Bob Collier, August 2000, Que, ISBN: 0-789-72335-2

DNS-Related WWW Sites

The DNS Place at Men&Mice
Secure BIND Template
DNS LOC: Geo-enabling the Domain Name System

RFCs and Internet-Drafts

A searchable archive of all RFCs and current Internet-Drafts is available on the Swiss SunSITE server.

RFCs

RFC 1034: Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities: Mockapetris, P., November 1987
RFC 1035: Domain Names - Implementation and Specification: Mockapetris, P., November 1987
RFC 1591: Domain Name System Structure and Delegation: J. Postel, March 1994
RFC 2181: Clarifications to the DNS specification: Elz, R., Bush, R., July 1997
RFC 4592: The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name System: E. Lewis, July 2006
RFC 4343: Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification: D. Eastlake 3rd, January 2006
DNS Referral Response Size Issues: Paul Vixie, Akira Kato, May 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 2308: Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE): M. Andrews, March 1998
RFC 1123: Requirements for Internet Hosts - application and support: Braden, R., January 1989
RFC 974: Mail routing and the domain system: Partridge, C., January 1986
RFC 3596: DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6: S. Thomson, C. Huitema, V. Ksinant, M. Souissi, October 2003
RFC 3172: Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa"): G Huston, Editor, September 2001
RFC 3152: Delegation of IP6.ARPA: R. Bush, August 2001
RFC 3681: Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA: R. Bush, R. Fink, January 2004
RFC 3363: Representing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Addresses in the Domain Name System (DNS): R. Bush, A. Durand, B. Fink, O. Gudmundsson, T. Hain, August 2002
RFC 3364: Tradeoffs in Domain Name System (DNS) Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6): R. Austein, August 2002
RFC 3901: DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines: A. Durand, J. Ihren, September 2004
DNS Transport: George Barwood, June 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 5966: DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation Requirements: R. Bellis, August 2010
RFC 4472: Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS: A. Durand, J. Ihren, P. Savola, April 2006
RFC 4074: Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses: Y. Morishita, T. Jinmei, May 2005
RFC 5158: 6to4 Reverse DNS Delegation Specification: G. Huston, March 2008
RFC 6195: Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations: D. Eastlake 3rd, March 2011
Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations: Donald E. Eastlake, May 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 3071: Reflections on the DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains: J. Klensin, February 2001
RFC 2694: DNS extensions to Network Address Translators (DNS_ALG): P. Srisuresh, G. Tsirtsis, P. Akkiraju, A. Heffernan, September 1999
RFC 2517: Building Directories from DNS: Experiences from WWWSeeker: R. Moats, R. Huber, February 1999
RFC 5864: DNS SRV Resource Records for AFS: R. Allbery, April 2010
DNS SRV Resource Records for the WebSocket Protocol: I. Baz Castillo, April 2011 (work in progress)
Using DNS SRV to Specify a Global File Name Space with NFS version 4: Craig Everhart, W.A. (Andy) Adamson, Jiaying Zhang, March 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 4701: A DNS Resource Record (RR) for Encoding Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Information (DHCID RR): M. Stapp, T. Lemon, A. Gustafsson, October 2006
RFC 2915: The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record: M. Mealling, R. Daniel, September 2000
RFC 3958: Domain-Based Application Service Location Using SRV RRs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service (DDDS): L. Daigle, A. Newton, January 2005
RFC 6186: Use of SRV Records for Locating Email Submission/Access Services: C. Daboo, March 2011
DNS Scoped Data Through Attribute Leaves: Dave Crocker, October 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 3832: Remote Service Discovery in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) via DNS SRV: W. Zhao, H. Schulzrinne, E. Guttman, C. Bisdikian, W. Jerome, July 2004
CoRE Link-Format to DNS-Based Service Discovery Mapping: Kerry Lynn, Zach Shelby, July 2011 (work in progress)
DNS SRV Resource Records for Network Management Protocols: Juergen Schoenwaelder, Tina Tsou, Cathy Zhou, March 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 5507: Design Choices When Expanding the DNS: P. Faltstrom, Ed., R. Austein, Ed., P. Koch, Ed., April 2009
RFC 4367: What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names: J. Rosenberg, Ed., IAB, February 2006
RFC 5205: Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extensions: P. Nikander, J. Laganier, April 2008
RFC 4892: Requirements for a Mechanism Identifying a Name Server Instance: S. Woolf, D. Conrad, June 2007
RFC 4501: Domain Name System Uniform Resource Identifiers: S. Josefsson, May 2006
Distributed DNS Implementation in IpV6: L. Huang, January 2012 (work in progress)
A name server Data Model: J. Dickinson, et al., March 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 6604: xNAME RCODE and Status Bits Clarification: D. Eastlake 3rd, April 2012
DNS Extended Service Discovery (ESRV) Record.: P. Hallam-Baker, B. Smith, March 2011 (work in progress)
An Extension Language for the DNS: John Levine, May 2012 (work in progress)
Asserting Administrative Policies and Boundaries in DNS Zones: Andrew Sullivan, March 2012 (work in progress)
Asserting Administrative Boundaries of Origin Using DNS Zones: Andrew Sullivan, May 2012 (work in progress)
Populating the DNS Reverse Tree for DHCP Delegated Prefixes: Ted Lemon, March 2012 (work in progress)

DNS Security

See also the http://www.dnssec.net/ Web site, and the dnssec-deployment.org site.

RFC 4033: DNS Security Introduction and Requirements: R. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose, March 2005
RFC 4034: Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions: R. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose, March 2005
RFC 4035: Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions: R. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose, March 2005
Clarifications and Implementation Notes for DNSSECbis: Samuel Weiler, David Blacka, April 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 4641: DNSSEC Operational Practices: O. Kolkman, R. Gieben, September 2006
DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2: Olaf M. Kolkman, W. (Matthijs) Mekking, April 2012 (work in progress)
DNSSEC Key Timing Considerations: S. Morris, et al., March 2011 (work in progress)
DNSSEC Key Timing Considerations Follow-Up: NLnet Labs, July 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 4986: Requirements Related to DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchor Rollover: H. Eland, R. Mundy, S. Crocker, S. Krishnaswamy, August 2007
RFC 5011: Automated Updates of DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchors: M. StJohns, September 2007
Definition and Use of DNSSEC Negative Trust Anchors: Jason Livingood, Chris Griffiths, March 2012 (work in progress)
DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone: Joe Abley, Jakob Schlyter, Guy Bailey, March 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 4956: DNS Security (DNSSEC) Opt-In: R. Arends, M. Kosters, D. Blacka, July 2007
RFC 2536: DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS): D. Eastlake, March 1999
RFC 2537: RSA/MD5 KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS): D. Eastlake, March 1999
RFC 3110: RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the Domain Name System (DNS): D. Eastlake 3rd, May 2001
RFC 4509: Use of SHA-256 in DNSSEC Delegation Signer (DS) Resource Records (RRs): W. Hardaker, May 2006
RFC 5702: Use of SHA-2 Algorithms with RSA in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC: J. Jansen, October 2009
RFC 5933: Use of GOST Signature Algorithms in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC: V. Dolmatov, Ed., A. Chuprina, I. Ustinov, July 2010
DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm IANA Registry Updates: Scott Rose, April 2012 (work in progress)
Use of SM2/SM3 Algorithms in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC: Sean Shen, July 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 6605: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) for DNSSEC: P. Hoffman, W.C.A. Wijngaard, April 2012
RFC 6014: Cryptographic Algorithm Identifier Allocation for DNSSEC: P. Hoffman, November 2010
Signaling Cryptographic Algorithm Understanding in DNSSEC: Steve Crocker, Scott Rose, May 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 2540: Detached Domain Name System (DNS) Information: D. Eastlake, March 1999
RFC 2541: DNS Security Operational Considerations: D. Eastlake, March 1999
RFC 2845: Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG): P. Vixie, O. Gudmundsson, D. Eastlake, B. Wellington, May 2000
RFC 3645: Generic Security Service Algorithm for Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (GSS-TSIG): S. Kwan, P. Garg, J. Gilroy, L. Esibov, J. Westhead, R. Hall, October 2003
RFC 4635: HMAC SHA (Hashed Message Authentication Code, Secure Hash Algorithm) TSIG Algorithm Identifiers: D. Eastlake 3rd, August 2006
Applicability Statement: DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm Implementation Status: Scott Rose, April 2012 (work in progress)
DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm IANA Registry Updates: Scott Rose, November 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 2930: Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR): D. Eastlake 3rd, September 2000
RFC 2931: DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s ): D. Eastlake 3rd, September 2000
DNSSEC Policy & Practice Statement Framework: Fredrik Ljunggren, Anne-Marie Eklund Lowinder, Tomofumi Okubo, March 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 3130: Notes from the State-Of-The-Technology: DNSSEC: E. Lewis, June 2001
RFC 3225: Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC: D. Conrad, December 2001
RFC 3597: Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record (RR) Types: A. Gustafsson, September 2003
IANA Allocated DNS RRtype Codes Without Documentation: E. Lewis, October 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 4470: Minimally Covering NSEC Records and DNSSEC On-line Signing: S. Weiler, J. Ihren, April 2006
RFC 5155: DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of Existence: B. Laurie, G. Sisson, R. Arends, D. Blacka, March 2008
DNS Security (DNSSEC) Authenticated Denial of Existence: R. (Miek) Gieben, W. (Matthijs) Mekking, January 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 4471: Derivation of DNS Name Predecessor and Successor: G. Sisson, B. Laurie, September 2006
RFC 4955: DNS Security (DNSSEC) Experiments: D. Blacka, July 2007
RFC 4431: The DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) DNS Resource Record: M. Andrews, S. Weiler, February 2006
RFC 5074: DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV): S. Weiler, November 2007
Applicability Statement: DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm IANA Registry: Scott Rose, May 2011 (work in progress)
DNSSEC Validator API: Suresh Krishnaswamy, Robert Story, Abhijit Hayatnagarkar, March 2012 (work in progress)
Establishing an Appropriate Root Zone DNSSEC Trust Anchor at Startup: J. Abley, D. Knight, January 2011 (work in progress)
Changing DNS Operators for DNSSEC signed Zones: Peter Koch, Marcos Sanz, March 2012 (work in progress)
DNSSEC KSK rollover failure recovery practices: Yoshiro YONEYA, March 2012 (work in progress)

Using DNS to Store Security Information

RFC 4398: Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS): S. Josefsson, March 2006
RFC 2539: Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keys in the Domain Name System (DNS): D. Eastlake, March 1999
RFC 4255: Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key Fingerprints: J. Schlyter, W. Griffin, January 2006
RFC 6594: Use of the SHA-256 Algorithm with RSA, Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), and Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) in SSHFP Resource Records: O. Sury, April 2012
RFC 4025: A Method for Storing IPsec Keying Material in DNS: M. Richardson, March 2005
RFC 5782: DNS Blacklists and Whitelists: J. Levine, February 2010
Considerations for Transitioning Content to IPv6: Jason Livingood, February 2012 (work in progress)
DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record: Phillip Hallam-Baker, Rob Stradling, April 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 6394: Use Cases and Requirements for DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE): R. Barnes, October 2011
The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA: Paul Hoffman, Jakob Schlyter, May 2012 (work in progress)
Using Secure DNS to Associate Certificates with Domain Names For S/MIME: Paul Hoffman, Jakob Schlyter, March 2012 (work in progress)
Serializing DNS Records with DNSSEC Authentication: Adam Langley, July 2011 (work in progress)

Additional Specs

RFC 1032: Domain Administrators Guide: Stahl, M., November 1987
RFC 1033: Domain Administrators Operations Guide: Lottor, M, November 1987
RFC 1178: Choosing a Name for Your Computer: Libes, D., August 1990
RFC 1183: New DNS RR Definitions: Ullman, R., Mockapetris, P., Mamakos, L, and C. Everhart, October 1990
RFC 1535: A Security Problem and Proposed Correction With Widely Deployed DNS Software: Gavron, E., October 1993
RFC 1536: Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes: Kumar, A., Postel, J., Neuman, C., Danzig, P., and S. Miller, October 1993
RFC 1537: Common DNS Data File Configuration Errors: Beertema, P., October 1993
RFC 1706: DNS NSAP Resource Records: B. Manning, R. Colella, October 1994
RFC 1713: Tools for DNS debugging: A. Romao, November 1994
RFC 1912: Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors: Barr, D., February 1996
RFC 1982: Serial Number Arithmetic: Elz, R., Bush, R., August 1996
RFC 1995: Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS: M. Ohta, August 1996
DNS Incremental Zone Transfer Protocol (IXFR): Alfred Hoenes, Ondrej Sury, Shane Kerr, April 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 5936: DNS Zone Transfer Protocol (AXFR): E. Lewis, A. Hoenes, Ed., June 2010
RFC 1996: DNS NOTIFY: A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes: P. Vixie, August 1996
RFC 2136: Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE): Vixie, P., Editor, Thomson, T., Rekhter, Y., and J. Bound, April 1997
RFC 3007: Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Update: B. Wellington, November 2000
RFC 3197: Applicability Statement for DNS MIB Extensions: R. Austein, November 2001
RFC 1611: DNS Server MIB Extensions: R. Austein, J. Saperia, May 1994
RFC 1612: DNS Resolver MIB Extensions: R. Austein, J. Saperia, May 1994
DNS Server Statistics Management Information Base (MIB): Simon Perreault, Jacques Latour, Jake Zack, April 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 2182: Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers: R. Elz, August 1997
RFC 3226: DNSSEC and IPv6 A6 aware server/resolver message size requirements: O. Gudmundsson, December 2001
Moving A6 to Historic Status: Sheng Jiang, David Conrad, Brian Carpenter, November 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 2317: Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation: H. Eidnes, G. de Groot, P. Vixie, March 1998
RFC 3425: Obsoleting IQUERY: D. Lawrence, November 2002
RFC 4183: A Suggested Scheme for DNS Resolution of Networks and Gateways: E. Warnicke, September 2005
RFC 2345: Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval: J. Klensin, T. Wolf, G. Oglesby, May 1998
RFC 2352: A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names: O. Vaughan, May 1998
RFC 2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names: D. Eastlake, A. Panitz, June 1999
Reserved Top Level Domain Names: Lyman Chapin, Mark McFadden, May 2011 (work in progress)
Special-Use Domain Names: Stuart Cheshire, Marc Krochmal, December 2011 (work in progress)
Reserved Domain Names: J. Abley, February 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 2671: Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0): P. Vixie, August 1999
Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0): Joao Damas, Michael Graff, Paul Vixie, February 2012 (work in progress)
EDNS0 Option for Indicating AAAA Record Synthesis and Format: J. Korhonen, T. Savolainen, February 2011 (work in progress)
EDNS Echo.: Warren Kumari, Roy Arends, February 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 3467: Role of the Domain Name System (DNS): J. Klensin, February 2003
RFC 3696: Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names: J. Klensin, February 2004
RFC 4027: Domain Name System Media Types: S. Josefsson, April 2005
RFC 4697: Observed DNS Resolution Misbehavior: M. Larson, P. Barber, October 2006
RFC 2672: Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection: M. Crawford, August 1999
DNAME Redirection in the DNS: Scott Rose, Wouter Wijngaards, April 2012 (work in progress)
xNAME RCODE and Status Bits Clarification: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd, January 2012 (work in progress)
xNAME loop detection and its usage suggestion: Jiankang Yao, Xiaodong Lee, November 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 2673: Binary Labels in the Domain Name System: M. Crawford, August 1999
RFC 3367: Common Name Resolution Protocol (CNRP): N. Popp, M. Mealling, M. Moseley, August 2002
RFC 3397: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Domain Search Option: B. Aboba, S. Cheshire, November 2002
RFC 4339: IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches: J. Jeong, Ed., February 2006
RFC 3401: Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS: M. Mealling, October 2002
RFC 3402: Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Two: The Algorithm: M. Mealling, October 2002
RFC 3403: Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) Database: M. Mealling, October 2002
RFC 3404: Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Four: The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Resolution Application: M. Mealling, October 2002
RFC 3405: Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment Procedures: M. Mealling, October 2002
RFC 3646: DNS Configuration options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6): R. Droms, Ed., December 2003
RFC 3406: Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanisms: L. Daigle, D. van Gulik, R. Iannella, P. Faltstrom, October 2002
RFC 2782: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV): A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, L. Esibov, February 2000
RFC 3123: A DNS RR Type for Lists of Address Prefixes (APL RR): P. Koch, June 2001
RFC 4408: Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail, Version 1: M. Wong, W. Schlitt, April 2006
SPF Authentication Failure Reporting using the Abuse Report Format: Scott Kitterman, March 2012 (work in progress)
Conclusion of SenderID and SPF experiments: S. Moonesamy, February 2012 (work in progress)
Resolution of The SPF and Sender ID Experiments: Murray S. Kucherawy, May 2012 (work in progress)
Reputation Data Interchange using the DNS: Nathaniel Borenstein, Murray S. Kucherawy, June 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 4870: Domain-Based Email Authentication Using Public Keys Advertised in the DNS (DomainKeys): M. Delany, May 2007
RFC 6376: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures: D. Crocker, Ed., T. Hansen, Ed., M. Kucherawy, Ed., September 2011
RFC 4686: Analysis of Threats Motivating DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM): J. Fenton, September 2006
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures: D. Crocker, Tony Hansen, M. Kucherawy, July 2011 (work in progress)
RFC4871 Implementation Report: M. Kucherawy, March 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 5585: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Service Overview: T. Hansen, D. Crocker, P. Hallam-Baker, July 2009
RFC 5016: Requirements for a DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signing Practices Protocol: M. Thomas, October 2007
RFC 5617: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP): E. Allman, J. Fenton, M. Delany, J. Levine, August 2009
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures - Over DOSETA: D. Crocker, M. Kucherawy, January 2011 (work in progress)
DomainKeys Security Tagging (DOSETA): D. Crocker, M. Kucherawy, July 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 5863: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Development, Deployment, and Operations: T. Hansen, E. Siegel, P. Hallam-Baker, D. Crocker, May 2010
Extensions to DKIM for Failure Reporting: Murray S. Kucherawy, March 2012 (work in progress)
A DNS TXT Record for Advertising and Discovering Willingness to Provide or Receive ARF Reports: J.D. Falk, July 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 6377: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Mailing Lists: M. Kucherawy, September 2011
RFC 6541: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Authorized Third-Party Signatures: M. Kucherawy, February 2012
RFC 6471: Overview of Best Email DNS-Based List (DNSBL) Operational Practices: C. Lewis, M. Sergeant, January 2012
RFC 5006: IPv6 Router Advertisement Option for DNS Configuration: J. Jeong, Ed., S. Park, L. Beloeil, S. Madanapalli, September 2007
RFC 5625: DNS Proxy Implementation Guidelines: R. Bellis, August 2009
RFC 5001: DNS Name Server Identifier (NSID) Option: R. Austein, August 2007
The Public Suffix Structure file format and its use for Cookie domain validation: Yngve N. Pettersen, March 2012 (work in progress)
Reverse DNS Naming Convention for CIDR Address Blocks: Joe Gersch, Dan Massey, Eric Osterweil, May 2012 (work in progress)
Moving MCAST.NET into the ARPA infrastructure top level domain: Peter Koch, Leo Vegoda, July 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 5452: Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged Answers: A. Hubert, R. van Mook, January 2009
DNS Resource Records for ILNP: RJ Atkinson, Scott Rose, July 2011 (work in progress)
DNS update for MIPv6: Zhiwei Yan, Jong-Hyouk Lee, October 2011 (work in progress)
Architectural Considerations on Application Features in the DNS: Jon Peterson, Olaf Kolkman, Hannes Tschofenig, Bernard Aboba, March 2012 (work in progress)
Location Information Server (LIS) Discovery using IP address and Reverse DNS: Martin Thomson, Ray Bellis, March 2012 (work in progress)
DNS Query XML: Mohan Parthasarathy, Paul Vixie, September 2011 (work in progress)
Lightweight Service Simplification via DNS: Zhen Cao, Feng Cao, Yuanchen Ma, Hui Tian, March 2012 (work in progress)
The Reachability Method (RM) DNS Resource Record: Ted Hardie, March 2012 (work in progress)

ENUM (E.164 Number Mapping)

RFC 6116: The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM): S. Bradner, L. Conroy, K. Fujiwara, March 2011
RFC 5526: The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application for Infrastructure ENUM: J. Livingood, P. Pfautz, R. Stastny, April 2009
RFC 5483: ENUM Implementation Issues and Experiences: L. Conroy, K. Fujiwara, March 2009
RFC 4759: The ENUM Dip Indicator Parameter for the "tel" URI: R. Stastny, R. Shockey, L. Conroy, December 2006
RFC 5067: Infrastructure ENUM Requirements: S. Lind, P. Pfautz, November 2007
RFC 2916: E.164 number and DNS: P. Faltstrom, September 2000
RFC 3824: Using E.164 numbers with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): J. Peterson, H. Liu, J. Yu, B. Campbell, June 2004
RFC 3245: The History and Context of Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) Operational Decisions: Informational Documents Contributed to ITU-T Study Group 2 (SG2): J. Klensin, Ed., March 2002
RFC 3482: Number Portability in the Global Switched Telephone Network (GSTN): An Overview: M. Foster, T. McGarry, J. Yu, February 2003
RFC 4694: Number Portability Parameters for the "tel" URI: J. Yu, October 2006
RFC 3762: Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) Service Registration for H.323: O. Levin, April 2004
RFC 3026: Liaison to IETF/ISOC on ENUM: R. Blane, January 2001
RFC 6117: IANA Registration of Enumservices: Guide, Template, and IANA Considerations: B. Hoeneisen, A. Mayrhofer, J. Livingood, March 2011
RFC 6118: Update of Legacy IANA Registrations of Enumservices: B. Hoeneisen, A. Mayrhofer, March 2011
RFC 3764: enumservice registration for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Addresses-of-Record: J. Peterson, April 2004
EDNS Option Code for SIP and PSTN Source Reference Info: Hadriel Kaplan, Robert H. Walter, Pierce Gorman, Manjul Maharishi, October 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 4002: IANA Registration for Enumservice 'web' and 'ft: R. Brandner, L. Conroy, R. Stastny, February 2005
RFC 4415: IANA Registration for Enumservice Voice: R. Brandner, L. Conroy, R. Stastny, February 2006
RFC 4355: IANA Registration for Enumservices email, fax, mms, ems, and sms: R. Brandner, L. Conroy, R. Stastny, January 2006
RFC 4143: Facsimile Using Internet Mail (IFAX) Service of ENUM: K. Toyoda, D. Crocker, November 2005
RFC 4769: IANA Registration for an Enumservice Containing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Signaling Information: J. Livingood, R. Shockey, November 2006
RFC 4969: IANA Registration for vCard Enumservice: A. Mayrhofer, August 2007
RFC 4979: IANA Registration for Enumservice 'XMPP': A. Mayrhofer, August 2007
SRV record query extension for XMPP: Akari Harada, Nobuo Ogashiwa, Hirotaka Sato, Yoshihiro Suzuki, January 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 5028: A Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) Service Registration for Instant Messaging (IM) Services: R. Mahy, October 2007
RFC 5278: IANA Registration of Enumservices for Voice and Video Messaging: J. Livingood, D. Troshynski, July 2008
RFC 5527: Combined User and Infrastructure ENUM in the e164.arpa Tree: M. Haberler, O. Lendl, R. Stastny, May 2009
RFC 6315: IANA Registration for Enumservice 'iax: E. Guy, K. Darilion, July 2011
RFC 5333: IANA Registration of Enumservices for Internet Calendaring: R. Mahy, B. Hoeneisen, October 2009
IANA Registration of Enumservices for Internet Calendaring: Bernie Hoeneisen, March 2012 (work in progress)
IANA Registration for Enumservice 'iax: E. Guy, K. Darilion, March 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 4725: ENUM Validation Architecture: A. Mayrhofer, B. Hoeneisen, November 2006
RFC 5105: ENUM Validation Token Format Definition: O. Lendl, December 2007
RFC 5341: The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) tel Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry: C. Jennings, V. Gurbani, September 2008
RFC 5346: Operational Requirements for ENUM-Based Softswitch Use: J. Lim, W. Kim, C. Park, L. Conroy, October 2008
Routing SIP Requests with ENUM: Hadriel Kaplan, Colin Pons, Pierce Gorman, October 2011 (work in progress)
ENUM Service Registration for Social Networking (SN) Services: Laurent-Walter Goix, Kepeng Li, March 2012 (work in progress)

Internationalization

RFC 2825: A Tangled Web: Issues of I18N, Domain Names, and the Other Internet protocols: IAB, L. Daigle, Editor, May 2000
RFC 3454: Preparation of Internationalized Strings ("stringprep"): P. Hoffman, M. Blanchet, December 2002
Stringprep Revision Problem Statement: Marc Blanchet, Andrew Sullivan, March 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 3490: Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): P. Faltstrom, P. Hoffman, A. Costello, March 2003
RFC 5890: Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework: J. Klensin, August 2010
RFC 5891: Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol: J. Klensin, August 2010
RFC 5892: The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): P. Faltstrom, Ed., August 2010
RFC 5893: Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): H. Alvestrand, Ed., C. Karp, August 2010
RFC 5894: Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Background, Explanation, and Rationale: J. Klensin, August 2010
IDNA2008 implementation report: Takahiro NEMOTO, Yoshiro YONEYA, February 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 3491: Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN): P. Hoffman, M. Blanchet, March 2003
RFC 3492: Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): A. Costello, March 2003
Clarified IANA Considerations for IDNA: John C Klensin, June 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 6055: IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names: D. Thaler, J. Klensin, S. Cheshire, February 2011
RFC 3743: Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean: K. Konishi, K. Huang, H. Qian, Y. Ko, April 2004
RFC 4185: National and Local Characters for DNS Top Level Domain (TLD) Names: J. Klensin, October 2005
RFC 4290: Suggested Practices for Registration of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN): J. Klensin, December 2005
RFC 3987: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs): M. Duerst, M. Suignard, January 2005
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs): Martin Duerst, Michel Suignard, Larry Masinter, March 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 4690: Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs): J. Klensin, P. Faltstrom, C. Karp, IAB, September 2006
RFC 4713: Registration and Administration Recommendations for Chinese Domain Names: X. Lee, W. Mao, E. Chen, N. Hsu, J. Klensin, October 2006
RFC 5564: Linguistic Guidelines for the Use of the Arabic Language in Internet Domains: A. El-Sherbiny, M. Farah, I. Oueichek, A. Al-Zoman, February 2010
Top Level Domain Name Specification: Netnod Internet Exchange, Joe Abley, November 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 5895: Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008: P. Resnick, P. Hoffman, September 2010
RFC 5992: Internationalized Domain Names Registration and Administration Guidelines for European Languages Using Cyrillic: S. Sharikov, D. Miloshevic, J. Klensin, October 2010
RFC 6452: The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) - Unicode 6.0: P. Faltstrom, Ed.,, P. Hoffman, Ed., November 2011
Representing registration policy for IDNs using XML: Kim Davies, March 2012 (work in progress)

Internet-Drafts

RFC 4703: Resolution of Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) Conflicts among Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Clients: M. Stapp, B. Volz, October 2006
RFC 4795: Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR): B. Aboba, D. Thaler, L. Esibov, January 2007
Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) Deployment Consideration for PCP Server Discovery: Gang Chen, Hui Deng, Junbin Zhang, October 2011 (work in progress)
PCP Rapid Recovery: Stuart Cheshire, June 2011 (work in progress)
DISCOVER: Supporting Multicast DNS Queries: Bill Manning, January 2012 (work in progress)
Multicast DNS: Stuart Cheshire, Marc Krochmal, December 2011 (work in progress)
Extended Multicast DNS: Kerry Lynn, Don Sturek, March 2012 (work in progress)
Requirements for a Protocol to Replace AppleTalk NBP: S. Cheshire, M. Krochmal, January 2011 (work in progress)
DNS-Based Service Discovery: Stuart Cheshire, Marc Krochmal, December 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 3707: Cross Registry Internet Service Protocol (CRISP) Requirements: A. Newton, February 2004
RFC 5679: Locating IEEE 802.21 Mobility Services Using DNS: G. Bajko, December 2009
Improved DNS Server Selection for Multi-Interfaced Nodes: Teemu Savolainen, Jun-ya Kato, Ted Lemon, October 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 6408: Diameter Straightforward-Naming Authority Pointer (S-NAPTR) Usage: M. Jones, J. Korhonen,, L. Morand, November 2011
Practically Secure DNS: Masataka Ohta, October 2011 (work in progress)
Problem Statement: DNS Resolution of Aliased Names: S. Woolf, et al., March 2011 (work in progress)
Client subnet in DNS requests: Carlo Contavalli, Wilmer van der Gaast, Sean Leach, Edward Lewis, April 2012 (work in progress)
Requirements For Internet Registry Services: Murray S. Kucherawy, April 2012 (work in progress)
Using Domain Name Services to Enable an AMT Gateway to Discover the Optimal AMT Relay in a Multi-Network SSM Multicast Environment: David Segelstein, Ashley Flavel, Doug Nortz, June 2011 (work in progress)
Preventing use Nameservers as malware distribution platform: F. Gomez, et al, July 2011 (work in progress)

Domain Name Server Operations (dnsop)

RFC 2870: Root Name Server Operational Requirements: R. Bush, D. Karrenberg, M. Kosters, R. Plzak, June 2000
Root Name Server Operational Requirements: Root Server System Advisory Committee, February 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 3258: Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via Shared Unicast Addresses: T. Hardie, April 2002
RFC 2826: IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root: IAB, May 2000
RFC 3675: .sex Considered Dangerous: D. Eastlake 3rd, February 2004
RFC 3833: Threat Analysis of the Domain Name System (DNS): D. Atkins, R. Austein, August 2004
RFC 5358: Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector Attacks: J. Damas, F. Neves, October 2008
RFC 5855: Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones: J. Abley, T. Manderson, May 2010
RFC 6304: AS112 Nameserver Operations: J. Abley, W. Maton, July 2011
RFC 6305: I'm Being Attacked by PRISONER.IANA.ORG!: J. Abley, W. Maton, July 2011
AS112 Nameserver Delegations for IPv6: George Michaelson, Geoff Huston, Joe Abley, William F. Maton Sotomayor, September 2011 (work in progress)
Additional IPv4 Delegations for AS112 Nameservers: William F. Maton Sotomayor, George Michaelson, Geoff Huston, Joe Abley, April 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 6303: Locally Served DNS Zones: M. Andrews, July 2011
Improving DNS Service Availability by Using Long TTL Values: Vasileios Pappas, Eric Osterweil, February 2012 (work in progress)
Distributed DNS Implementation in IpV6: L. Huang, January 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 6168: Requirements for Management of Name Servers for the DNS: W. Hardaker, May 2011
Cloning Domain Name System (DNS) Labels for Fun and Profit: Douglas Barton, September 2011 (work in progress)
DNS and UDP Fragmentation: Mark Andrews, January 2012 (work in progress)
DNS-Test-Result: Juan Zhang, Lanfang Ren, Lianyuan Li, March 2012 (work in progress)

Registry/Registrar Protocols

RFC 3375: Generic Registry-Registrar Protocol Requirements: S. Hollenbeck, September 2002
RFC 2832: NSI Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0: S. Hollenbeck, M. Srivastava, May 2000
RFC 3632: VeriSign Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 2.0.0: S. Hollenbeck, S. Veeramachaneni, S. Yalamanchilli, November 2003
RFC 5730: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP): S. Hollenbeck, August 2009
RFC 5731: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping: S. Hollenbeck, August 2009
RFC 5732: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Host Mapping: S. Hollenbeck, August 2009
RFC 5733: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Contact Mapping: S. Hollenbeck, August 2009
RFC 5734: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport over TCP: S. Hollenbeck, August 2009
RFC 3735: Guidelines for Extending the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP): S. Hollenbeck, March 2004
Internationalized Domain Name Mapping Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP): Francisco Obispo, Luis Enrique Munoz, December 2011 (work in progress)
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping Extension for Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Variants: Ning Kong, Jiagui Xie, Hongtao Li, Wil Tan, Xiaodong Li, March 2012 (work in progress)
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping Extension for Chinese Domain Names: Xiaodong Lee, Weiping Yang, Jiagui Xie, Ning Kong, July 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 3915: Domain Registry Grace Period Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP): S. Hollenbeck, September 2004
RFC 5910: Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP): J. Gould, S. Hollenbeck, May 2010
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) Mapping for Chinese Domain Names: Jiagui Xie, Ning Kong, Hongtao Li, Xiaodong Lee, October 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 4114: E.164 Number Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP): S. Hollenbeck, June 2005
Launch Phase Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP): Wil Tan, Gavin Brown, October 2011 (work in progress)
RFC 3981: IRIS: The Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) Core Protocol: A. Newton, M. Sanz, January 2005
RFC 3982: IRIS: A Domain Registry (dreg) Type for the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS): A. Newton, M. Sanz, January 2005
RFC 3983: Using the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) over the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP): A. Newton, M. Sanz, January 2005
RFC 4414: An ENUM Registry Type for the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS): A. Newton, February 2006
RFC 5076: ENUM Validation Information Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol: B. Hoeneisen, December 2007
RESTful interface for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol: Maarten Wullink, Marco Davids, R. (Miek) Gieben, April 2012 (work in progress)
RFC 4698: IRIS: An Address Registry (areg) Type for the Internet Registry Information Service: E. Gunduz, A. Newton, S. Kerr, October 2006
RFC 4991: A Common Schema for Internet Registry Information Service Transfer Protocols: A. Newton, August 2007
RFC 4992: XML Pipelining with Chunks for the Internet Registry Information Service: A. Newton, August 2007
RFC 4993: A Lightweight UDP Transfer Protocol for the Internet Registry Information Service: A. Newton, August 2007
RFC 5144: A Domain Availability Check (DCHK) Registry Type for the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS): A. Newton, M. Sanz, February 2008
Registry Data Escrow Specification: Francisco Arias, Shoji Noguchi, March 2012 (work in progress)
Domain Name Registration Data (DNRD) Objects Mapping: Francisco Arias, Shoji Noguchi, March 2012 (work in progress)
A RESTful Web Service for Domain Name Registration Data (RWS-DNRD): Steve Sheng, Francisco Arias, Francisco Obispo, Ning Kong, March 2012 (work in progress)
Domain Name Registration Data Access Protocol Query Format: Scott Hollenbeck, Steve Sheng, Francisco Arias, May 2012 (work in progress)