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"I never set out to be a DNS practitioner, but working with it has been a rewarding if unavoidable theme of my 40 year career.."
From a 1980s student seminar on the fresh RFC882/883, through an early stub resolver implementation, becoming the DNS sysadmin at an SME and early ISP, then co-founder of a ccTLD registry, this talk traces the author's experience of working with the DNS. Reflections on establishing and operating root servers, oversight of open-source DNS software development, and spinning out DNS-OARC as an independent, neutral and respected technical community for all things DNS.
The DNS is one of the Internet's success stories, being close to the founding principles of distributed architecture and open interoperable standards based upon rough consensus and running code. But it also has a reputation as one of the Internet's success disasters, where its ubiquity and latter-day complexity makes it the focus for blame, abuse and controversy.
This talk attempts to take a step back from the nitty-gritty of technical standards, implementations, operational snafus, and governance minutiae, and to look at the long arc of what has been achieved in the context of one long-standing participant's perspective.
| Talk duration | 20 Minutes (+5 for Q&A) |
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