Subject: [mif] New Charter Items?

From: Margaret Cullen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 07:32:07 -0500

At the last MIF meeting, and later on the mailing list, we reached consensus that we would use a two-step approach for the configuration of explicit PVDs.  RAs would be used to provide the information to do a second-step look up, including the PVD name.  Then a second step would be used to look up further information about the PVD.

The only proposal we currently have on the table for a second-step look-up is a DNS look-up, and no one seems to be advocating for another method.  So, to define a two-step approach using DNS, there are three things that we need to specify:

- An NTP server option for RAs, so that DNSSEC can be used for the lookup.
- A PVD Name option for RAs, so that we can tell hosts what PVD to look up.
- An explanation of what PVD information will be held in the DNS and how.

Those things would need to be added to our charter, so that we can accept corresponding work items.

Does anyone have any objection to adding explicit PVD configuration to the MIF charter and adding these three work items to our milestone list?  If not, the chairs and the AD will propose a charter/milestone update along these lines.

Thanks,
Margaret