DNS Standards Documents

The Domain Name System is an open protocol. As such, there have been many collaborative efforts from the industry as a whole to ensure that its implementation on various systems does not limit interoperability. The standards body overseeing such recommendations is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The following are IETF documents-some of them Requests for Comments (RFC) and some Internet Drafts-that are associated with DNS. For more information about any of these documents, visit www.ietf.org.

DNS-related RFCs

RFC 1034: Domain Names–Concepts and Facilities

RFC 1035: Domain Names–Implementation and Specification

RFC 1123: Requirements for Internet Hosts–Application and Support

RFC 1886: DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6

RFC 1995: Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS

RFC 1996: A Mechanism for Prompt DNS Notification of Zone Changes

RFC 2136: Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)

RFC 2181: Clarifications to the DNS Specification

RFC 2308: Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE)

DNS-related Internet Drafts

Draft-ietf-dnsind-rfc2052bis-02.txt (A DNS RR for Specifying the Location of Services (DNS SRV))

Draft-skwan-utf8-dns-02.txt (Using the UTF-8 Character Set in the Domain Name System)

Draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-dns-08.txt (Interaction between DHCP and DNS)

Draft-ietf-dnsind-tsig-11.txt (Secret Key Transaction Signatures for DNS (TSIG))

Draft-ietf-dnsind-tkey-00.txt (Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR))

Draft-skwan-gss-tsig-04.txt (GSS Algorithm for TSIG (GSS-TSIG) )