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Hi there all,
At the recent RIPE 92 meeting the IAB presented on "Bridging IETF and RIPE
- From Standards to Operations and back".
Part of the feedback was that we should share more targeted information,
for example that a list of newly adopted drafts and published RFCs. A
primary purpose of this is incase you see a newly adopted draft where you
feel that you might be able and willing to provide feedback and operational
insight.
This is a trial run of this process - it's newly published RFCs and
adopted drafts in DNS groups.
Please let me know if it's actually interesting / of use to you, and I'll
see about making it better.
I realize that this is just a list of draft names and titles - I had
considered also adding the draft abstracts, but that would have made this
super long and hard to read…
Because this is the first time I'm starting from Jan 1st - if this is
useful, future ones would be much shorter…
Feedback (including "No, this is just clutter!!!") welcome,
W
Operations and Management AreaDomain Name System Operations (dnsop)
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dnsop/about/> adopted drafts since
2026-01-01:
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draft-ietf-dnsop-delegation-mgmt-via-ddns: Automating DNS Delegation
Management via DDNS
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-delegation-mgmt-via-ddns/>
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draft-ietf-dnsop-delext: DNS Protocol Modifications for Delegation
Extensions <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-delext/>
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draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-keyrestore: DNSSEC Key Restore
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-keyrestore/>
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draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc9364bis: DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc9364bis/>
