DNS project - Year 1 Goals

Year 1 of the NSF sponsored CAIDA DNS project was from September 15, 2004 till August 31, 2005.

Sponsored by:

Principal Investigator: kc claffy

Funding source: OAC-0427144 Period of performance: September 15, 2004 - August 31, 2009.

Operational characterization of DNS
Category	Task		Lead	Estimated Completion Date	Notes
		nodes			software	status
CAIDA/ISC	7-day delayed web pages of workload	2 global F-root nodes	Duane Wessels	April 2005	dsc
		TLD server	Duane Wessels	TBD	dsc
CAIDA/ISC	Capturing two months of data from a root server	F, M, C roots	Duane Wessels for data collection Paul Vixie for involving OARC members	May 2005	tcpdump
CAIDA/ISC	Case studies of client misbehavior	F-root	Duane Wessels	September 2005	dsc, other
CAIDA	Anycast analysis	F-root, AS112	Brad Huffaker	September 2005	TBD
CAIDA	RFC1918 analysis	AS112	Andre Broido	March 2005	perl scripts from 2001 paper
Outreach
Category	Task		Lead	Estimated Completion Date	Notes
CAIDA/ISC	Configuration BCPs		Duane Wessels	TBD
ISC	RFC1918 applicability statement		Paul Vixie	July 2005
CAIDA/ISC	"Hall of shame" list to NANOG		Duane Wessels	April 2005
CAIDA	Research workshop and members meeting		kc claffy	August 2005
Improving trust infrastructure for DNS operations community
Category	Task		Lead	Estimated Completion Date	Notes
ISC	Software support for Incident Response forum		Paul Vixie	April 2005	ejabberd, supporting scripts
ISC	Support for member-customized mailing list		Paul Vixie	April 2005	TBD
CAIDA/ISC	Formalizing "scalable trust" infrastructure		kc claffy, Paul Vixie	TBD
Laboratory experiments
Category	Task		Lead	Estimated Completion Date	Notes
CAIDA/ISC	Develop test of CoDNS scalability		Duane Wessels	July 2005	TBD
CAIDA/ISC	Run simulations with DNSSEC		Duane Wessels	January 2006 (2nd yr)