One of the more active areas of activity at the IETF falls under the remit of the DNS Operations Working Group. It’s an operational Working Group rather than a protocol development working group, but nevertheless the DNS is a very rich topic area with much to talk about. There is a view that this level of attention of unwarranted, as the DNS is just another application layered upon a common Internet substrate. However, I think that this perspective is missing the point that the DNS is an in...
