Name: OARC 47 (Vancouver, BC)
Start: 2026-11-08T09:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-11-11T16:30:00-08:00
Location: Morris J. Wosk Centre For Dialogue, SFU

Monday 2 November 2026
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Thursday 5 November 2026
Friday 6 November 2026
Saturday 7 November 2026
Sunday 8 November 2026

18:00 Newcomer's Dinner
Newcomer's Dinner
18:00 - 20:00

Monday 9 November 2026

09:00 In-Person Registration
In-Person Registration
09:00 - 10:00
10:00 Day 1 Session 1
Day 1 Session 1
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Contributions

10:00 Welcome to OARC 47 - Dave Knight (OARC, Inc.)

10:10 PC Session Chair introduces Session 1 Day 1

10:15 Cuckoo Clock: Managing billions of names - John Todd

10:40 ISP Customer DNS on Edge Compute - Charlie Helfinstine (Comcast)
11:00 Day 1 Morning Break
Day 1 Morning Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Day 1 Session 2
Day 1 Session 2
11:30 - 12:45
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Contributions

11:30 PC Session Chair Introduces Session 2 Day 1

11:35 Beyond Loop Limits: Comparative Analysis of CNAME-Loop Handling in Recursive Resolvers - Dejan Donin (Cisco) Sean Mooney (Cisco Systems Inc)

12:00 DNS Resolution Behaviour - Geoff Huston (APNIC)

12:25 Can you hear me? - Alain Durand (ICANN)
12:45 Day 1 Lunch Break
Day 1 Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
13:30 OARC 47 Day 1
OARC 47 Day 1
13:30 - 14:00
Contributions

13:30 WeirDNS: Measuring Bogon Address Exposure in DNS - Fariba Osali (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

13:45 Seeing DNS Differently: Interactive Exploration of a Year of Passive DNS - Kim Morgan de Oliveira Ito Porto (Sao Paulo State University (UNESP))
14:15 Day 1 Session 3
Day 1 Session 3
14:15 - 15:15
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Contributions

14:15 PC Session Chair Introduces Session 3 Day 1

14:20 DNS without Child NS Records - Shane Kerr (IBM)

14:25 Subverting parent-centric resolvers - Wes Hardaker (Google and USC/ISI)

14:50 Mind the Gap: Cross-RFC Formal Analysis Exposes DNSSEC's Hidden Vulnerabilities - Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks)
15:15 Day 1 Afternoon Break
Day 1 Afternoon Break
15:15 - 15:45
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
15:45 Day 1 Session 4
Day 1 Session 4
15:45 - 17:15
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Contributions

15:45 PC Session Chair Introduces Session 4 Day 1

15:50 Measuring PQ DNSSEC performance at Cloudflare - Vicky Shrestha (Cloudflare DNS)

16:05 Are your Zones Resolvable? Automatically Detecting DNS(SEC) Misconfigurations with Formal Reasoning - Felix Linker (ETH Zürich)

16:30 Dissecting NSEC and NSEC3 Deployment in the Wild - Yixin Sun (University of Virginia)

16:50 TLD DNSSEC Timeline - Peter Thomassen (deSEC)

17:00 Social Sponsor

17:05 PC Session Chair Closes Day 1 OARC 47
18:00 OARC 47 Social
OARC 47 Social
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday 10 November 2026

09:00 In-Person Registration
In-Person Registration
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Day 2 Session 1
Day 2 Session 1
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Contributions

09:30 PC Session Chair Introduces Session 1 Day 2

09:35 A data-driven approach to migrating your DNS anycast platform - Jeroen Bulten (SIDN) Martijn Schmidt (i3D.net)

10:00 Trust your paths: routing security for DNS infrastructure operators - Ritesh Mukherjee (Nokia)

10:25 How a DNS Resolver Bug Doubled Root Server Traffic for a Week - Duane Wessels (Verisign)

10:40 RDAP in Practice: Modernizing Internet Registration Directory Services - Amanda Gauldin (ARIN) Mark Kosters (ARIN)
11:00 Day 2 Morning Break
Day 2 Morning Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Day 2 Session 2
Day 2 Session 2
11:30 - 12:45
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Contributions

11:30 PC Session Chair Introduces Session 2 Day 2

11:35 Operationalizing the DNS for Drone Identity with DRIP - Sandoche BALAKRICHENAN (Afnic)

11:55 How Long Is Too Long? A Fleet-Scale Census of Domain Label Depth to Right-Size QNAME Minimization - Adam Phelps (Cisco Systems Inc) Prashanth Suvarna (Cisco Systems/OpenDNS) Sean Mooney (Cisco Systems Inc)

12:15 Opportunistic Operator Transport Signalling (OOTS) - Joseph Abley (Snake Hill Labs Inc)

12:30 Hiding in Plain Sight: Security Blind Spots in Composite DNS Queries - Darin Johnson (Infoblox)
12:45 Day 2 Lunch Break
Day 2 Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
13:30 OARC 47 Day 2
OARC 47 Day 2
13:30 - 14:00
Contributions

13:30 JIGGLE Attack: What Malformed Queries Reveal About DNS Resolver Security - Yuqi Qiu (Nankai University)

13:45 Malicious Domain Detection in Real-World Academic DNS Traffic: A Machine-Learning Approach - Guilherme Romanholo Bofo (São Paulo State University (UNESP))
14:15 Day 2 Session 3
Day 2 Session 3
14:15 - 15:15
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Contributions

14:15 PC Session Chair Introduces Session 3 Day 2

14:20 Benchmarking tools: new features, old bugs - Petr Špaček (Internet Systems Consortium (ISC))

14:30 The OARC BCP Initiative - How is it going? - Matthijs Mekking (ISC)

14:35 Lightning Talk Placeholder

15:00 PC Session Chair closing remarks

15:05 OARC 47 Wrap-UP
15:15 Day 2 Afternoon Break
Day 2 Afternoon Break
15:15 - 15:45

15:45 Members AGM
Members AGM
15:45 - 17:45
Room: Asia Pacific Hall
Wednesday 11 November 2026
08:30 Session 1
Session 1
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Strathcona
Contributions

08:30 Intro to Vector for dnstap Monitoring: Interactive Configurations - John Todd
Session 1
Session 1
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Fairview
Contributions

08:30 OARC BCP Working Group Session - Matthijs Mekking (ISC)
10:00 Morning Coffee Break
Morning Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Session 2
Session 2
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Strathcona
Contributions

10:30 Serve your own copy of the DNS Root - Wes Hardaker (USC/ISI)
Session 2
Session 2
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Fairview
Contributions

10:30 The forgotten art: DNS Monitoring - Ulrich Wisser (IIS)

11:20 DNS use within an AI world - Jim Mozley (Infoblox)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Session 3
Session 3
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Strathcona
Contributions

13:00 Debug malicious network traffic using the open source traffic-taffy tool - Wes Hardaker (USC/ISI)
Session 3
Session 3
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Fairview
Contributions

13:00 Deploying ADoX: Why It Matters and How Operators Can Get Started - Babak Farrokhi (Quad9 DNS) Sara Dickinson (Sinodun IT)
14:30 Afternoon Coffee Break
Afternoon Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:00
15:00 Session 4
Session 4
15:00 - 16:30
Room: Strathcona
Contributions

15:00 A Hands on Tutorial on MTL - Andrew Kaizer (Verisign)
Session 4
Session 4
15:00 - 16:30
Room: Fairview
Contributions

15:00 Implementing OOTS: Authoritative DNS Transport Signaling in Practice - Babak Farrokhi (Quad9 DNS) Sara Dickinson (Sinodun IT)