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Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC)

The RSSAC is a group of root server operators and specialists that provides insights and advice to the ICANN Board and community about the management of the Internet’s Root Server System.

RSSAC Caucus Members

The RSSAC Caucus is a broad group of Domain Name System and Root Server System (RSS) experts who provide input and advice to the RSSAC on various technical topics. The caucus’s members come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, and they help the RSSAC perform research and produce publications on topics related to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the RSS. It plays an important role in ensuring that the RSSAC’s work is grounded in both technical and practical considerations.

The first members of the RSSAC Caucus were appointed in July 2014. The RSSAC Caucus includes all RSSAC members and others who are appointed by the committee. Interested people can apply for membership and anyone can browse the public archive of its mailing list. Read the RSSAC Caucus’s Purpose and Principles.

John Bond

Statement of Interest for RSSAC Caucus


Name: John Bond


Affiliation and current position
ICANN, DNS Operations Manager

Relevant qualifications

  • Involved in the management and operations of l.root-servers.net Nov 2013 - Present
  • Involved in the management and operations of k.root-servers.net Jan 2012 - Oct 2013
  • http://lnkd.in/beKxU8y

Motivation for membership in the Caucus
Assist the RSSAC caucus in all work relating to the root server system in an effort to maintain operational stability and diversity

Indication of availability
I will be available to attend all Caucus meetings either in person or remotely (time zone permitting). I am also available to spend one day a month working on RSSAC Documents.

Formal roles and interests in the work area of RSSAC

  • Employed by ICANN current maintainer of l.root-servers.net

Anand Buddhdev

Statement of Interest

Name
Anand Buddhdev

Affiliation and Current Position
Senior engineer at RIPE NCC

Relevant Qualifications
I'm responsible for most of the DNS operations at the RIPE NCC, including the operations of one root server, viz. K-root. I began dabbling in DNS about 15 years ago, and joined the RIPE NCC to develop my understanding and skill in it. In the last 10 years at the RIPE NCC, I have worked almost exclusively with DNS.

Motivation for Membership in the RSSAC Caucus
I am interested in the security and stability of the root name server system because I am responsible for operating one of the root name servers. I feel that I have enough experience with running DNS systems and servers that I can understand and contribute to discussion about DNS topics, and review and comment on documents being authored in RSSAC.

Indication of Availability
I can work on RSSAC-related topics for 2 days a month. In addition, I am able and willing to travel to RSSAC meetings, or attend them remotely, if needed.

Robert Carolina

RSSAC Caucus Membership Application
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  • Name: Robert Carolina
  • Affiliation and current position: (1) General Counsel, Internet Systems Consortium; (2) Senior Fellow (Information Security Group), Royal Holloway University of London
  • Relevant qualifications: I have spent nearly all of my 30+ year career as a lawyer and 20+ year career as a university lecturer analyzing, explaining, and shaping the application of law and public policy to the Internet. I am the author of the “Law and Regulation” section of the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK: www.cybok.org), a project to catalogue subject matter of concern to cybersecurity practitioners globally. I hold degrees in political science (BA, University of Dayton) and law (Juris Doctor, Georgetown University Law Center), as well as a degree in international business law with focus on problems of private international law and regulation of multinational enterprises (LL.M, London School of Economics and Political Science). I am licensed to practice law in the Senior Courts of England & Wales, in Illinois (currently inactive), and in the US Supreme Court. I have also served as a facilitator or parliamentarian for governance bodies in deliberating matters that are complex or contentious.
  • Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus: I am keen to assist RSSAC and the broader Internet community in developing the next generation of root server governance and in responding to legal and regulatory matters that could influence or threaten the operation of a single global Internet.
  • Indication of availability: I anticipate being able to provide significant support to RSSAC in any project where my subject matter expertise will be of assistance.
  • Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC: I was invited by the root server operators and then by RSSAC to assist them in developing “[RSSAC0nn:] Success Criteria for the Root Server System Governance Structure”. I want to continue to assist RSSAC in matters related to RSS governance. I also hope to contribute to ongoing efforts related to ICANN Workstream 2, especially challenges related to jurisdiction and privacy laws.
  • Links where appropriate: www.linkedin.com/in/robertcarolina/

Brett Carr

RSSAC Caucus Membership Application
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  • Name: Brett Carr (brett.carr@nominet.uk)
  • Affiliation and current position: Nominet – Manager, DNS Engineering and Operations
  • Relevant qualifications:
    Many years working in DNS Operations at the ISP Level, In Root Operations (RIPE NCC), and TLD Operations (Nominet UK). I have hands on experience and more recently experience of managing teams to operate large scale DNS and DNSSEC.
  • Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus:
    More autonomy from employer to get involved in technical community efforts. Want to give my help.
  • Indication of availability:
    I can be available for reading and responding to mailing lists and occasional conference calls.
  • Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC:
    I have worked with a root server previously (K) I have managed and run operations for .uk and 67 GTLDs for 14 years. I am a standing committee member of TLD-Ops and have helped with the development of DDOS and BC/DR Playbooks. I am currently vice chair of the CSC.
  • Links where appropriate:

Michael Casadevall

Name
Michael Casadevall

Affiliation
Independent Contractor

Relevant qualifications

  • Creator and Designer of the DNSCatcher software and protocol to study and understand the behavior of recursive resolvers
  • DNSCatcher's design outline is included in links, but the current proof of concept code implements a DNS recursive resolver which then provides additional logging and cross-checks to validate information to determine if a given server is giving valid server. It's intended to extend to a full validation suite of DNS behavior as well as a system of submitting work requests to allow queries to see behavior of DNS across the board
  • Ubuntu Core Developer and Debian Developer with the capability to help push updates and changes to BIND and other DNS server in production to help fix bugs discovered in production
  • Creator of the Network Data Recorder server/client which is designed as a SoHo IDS system. As part of its system, it scanned all outbound DNS queries via a modified version of wireshark and performed cross-check, sanity checks, and reverse lookups to map individual lookups to a given user and provide geoIP information to help detect anomalous traffic. The project source code is currently available at https://github.com/securedbythem
  • Experienced with embedded, IoT, and router device creation including behavior of DNS lookups of these types of devices and how they are shipped, configured and updated to provide standard DNS lookups, or recursive lookups for a given network.
  • Creation of a DNS root zone emulator for testing the behaviors of IDN TLDs https://github.com/NCommander/idn-root-zone which implements full DNSSEC and fully manipulatable root zone, authoritative server and recursive resolver as a series of Docker images to both aid in development of DNS software, and to test the behavior of various softwares in an IDN environment (for example, validation and revocation checking of TLS certificates containing IDNs, and checking behavior of SMTP software in the face of EAIs
  • I'm actively involved with UASG and extremely familiar with the IDNA specifications, and attended UASG meetings to help identify pain points and spread understanding of where to extend and help fix IDN/EAI issues on a programming language level and on a low level programming level to help solve issues higher in the stack.
  • I actively read DNSOPs and occasionally participate in some email threads. I'm well familiar with the DNS protocol, and wrote a full server stack and client implementation from scratch as part of this work.
  • I provided technical insight to the NARALO community on DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS including the risks of tying DNS to the WebPKI ecosystem, false sense of security provided by these protocols, and other design issues that need to be aware of to help understand what DoH/DoT does and doesn't fix, and what additional work is necessary to truly provide secure and authenticated DNS records to the end user.
  • I attended ICANN61, and have been a fellow for ICANN63 and ICANN65, and consider myself relatively familiar with the ICANN ecosystem and how various groups interact. I'm a member of ISOC-NY (and thus NARALO through the ALS), as well as NCUC.

Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus
My primary motivation for joining the RSSAC Caucus is to help expand research into the recursive resolver behavior as well as providing help and front-line support in fixing DNS resolvers in production operating systems to help reduce load and abuse of the root servers. My skillset is basis towards the technical aspects of DNS, and I feel that working as part of RSSAC is one of the best ways I can contribute to the ICANN community.


I was encouraged to join the caucus after attending several RSSAC sessions and providing input based on my experience with device deployment and the work of my research done to date on recursive DNS resolver behavior.

Indication of availability
Any - as I'm self-employed, I set my own hours of availability and travel. I will be able to attend most of not all caucus calls, and will be able to attend events in person depending on funding and location availability.

Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC
None

Links

Harish Chowdhary

Name
Harish Chowdhary

Affiliation and Current Position
Technology Analyst, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)
Internet Governance consultant
Governing Council Member, India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoC)
Delhi Student Chapter Leader (OWASP-Open Web application Security Project)
Technical Committee Member, Council of Information Security
Technical Committee Member, Cyber peace foundation
Member, Data Security Council of India
Member, Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel, ICANN
Member, Universal Acceptance Steering Group, ICANN
Member, IETF India community
Member, ISOC Delhi Chapter
Member, India Internet Governance Forum (IIGF)
Institutional Membership of APNIC

Relevant Qualifications
ISOC Fellow for IETF 97
IIREF (India Internet Research and Engineering Forum) Fellow for IETF 99
Insight (India School of Internet Governance) Fellow 2017

Motivation
I am interested in supporting and extending my work towards security and availability of Root Servers. I am involved in increasing the number of instances in India and NIXI has sponsored three Root Servers, at Mumbai (I Root) Delhi (K Root) and Chennai (F Root). I am motivated to contribute towards RSSAC activities to get more insight into Root server operations and like to use the experience and contribute in working parties working on the operations and outreach.

Indication of Availability
I can work on RSSAC documents for about 15 hours/month

Formal Roles and Interests in the Work of RSSAC

  • Hosting of three Root Servers, at Mumbai (I Root), Delhi (K) and Chennai (F Root in India.
  • Researching on Root Server geographical placement for more resilient internet

Links

http://nixi.in
http://indiaig.in
http://iiesoc.in
http://iiref.in
https://insig.in
http://www.cyberpeacefoundation.org/

David Conrad

RSSAC Caucus Membership Application
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  • Name: David Conrad
  • Affiliation and current position: Partner/CTO
  • Relevant qualifications: In reverse order: currently: GAC PSWG member and consultant to US DOD CIO on Internet governance/technology. Past: PTI board member, SVP and CTO of ICANN, consultant to US FBI on Internet standards and operations, senior technical staff at Cloudflare, VP of IT for ICANN and IANA General Manager, ARIN board member, co-founder and VP Engineering of Nominum, Executive Director of Internet Software Consortium, co-founder and Director General of APNIC, co-founder of APRICOT, network engineer at Internet Initiative Japan, Internet researcher at University of Hawaii, network engineer at University of Maryland, IETF participant since 1991, 6 RFCs published.
  • Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus:
    Support various technical and governance matters related to the root server system
  • Indication of availability:
    Variable. On average, generally available but occasionally buried under contracts
  • Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC:
    Formally, I'm a member of the GAC Public Safety Working Group. Primary (immediate) interest is related to security incident reporting
  • Links where appropriate:
    https://www.layer9.tech

Bruce Crabill

Statement of Interest for RSSAC Caucus

Name: Bruce Crabill

Affiliation and current position:
University of Maryland, College Park - Senior IT Engineer

Motivation:
I wish to ensure the security, integrity, and stability of the Internet DNS infrastructure. I have particular interests in performance and operational issues.

Indication of availability, not a formal commitment:
I can work on RSSAC documents for about 6 hours per month.

About me:
http://www.maxgigapop.net/about-us/our-team

Relevant Qualifications:

  • Have designed, implemented, and maintained high performance/high reliability services for over 30 years.

Formal roles and interests in the work area of RSSAC:

  • D-root operator

John Crain

Statement of Interest for RSSAC Caucus

Name: John Crain

Motivation: I am interested in helping to improve the stability and resiliency in all areas of the Internet's Identifier systems and have a keen interest in the DNS specifically. I am very keen to see the operations of the higher levels of the DNS hierarchy become more transparent through enabling others to better understand the functioning of these systems. My belief is that RSSAC should be a key enabler in that area.

Indication of availability, not a formal commitment: I can work on RSSAC documents for about 7 hours per month in addition to the time I spend for formal RSSAC business. I schedule work with about 6 weeks planning horizon.

About me:
http://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/crain.htm
http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlcrain

Relevant Qualifications:
• DNS operator since the 1990s with roles relating to k.root-servers.net while at the RIPE-NCC and later l.root-servers.netat ICANN.
• Involved in Identifier governance issues since the mid 1990s and ICANN since it's inception.
• Developed and delivered training programs related to the Security and Stability of the DNS to DNS operators and since the early 2000's.

Formal roles and interests in the work area of RSSAC:
• Employed by ICANN the l.root-servers.net operator in the role of Chief SSR Officer.
• Member of RSSAC.
• Member of the board of directors of the DNS Operations Analysis & Research Centre (http://DNS-OARC.net)

Stephen D Crocker

RSSAC Caucus Membership Application
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  • Name: Stephen D Crocker
  • Affiliation and current position: CEO, Shinkuro, Inc. and member of SSAC
  • Relevant qualifications: Current member of SSAC. Previously founding chair of SSAC; member and chair of the ICANN board; PhD in computer science; many years of work on DNSSEC.
  • Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus: Strong interest in smooth, safe evolution of root service taking into consideration both the technical issues, e.g. evolution of hyperlocal root service, and organizational issues, e.g. financial support, and selection and oversight of new entrants.
  • Indication of availability: Semi-retired. Available.
  • Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC: I do not have any formal role in RSSAC.
  • Links where appropriate:

João Damas

Name
João Luis Silva Damas


Affiliation and current position
Bond Internet Systems
Relevant qualifications
Root server operator 1997-2013
DNS software development (BIND)
Researcher of DNS server operations

Motivation for membership in the Caucus
My main motivation is the continuation of work towards maintaining and increasing the level of stability and resilience in the root server system. I am willing and available to work on documents related to root name server operations and operational requirements as well as anything related to outreach. My personal goals for RSSAC work products are relevance, timeliness, and professionalism.

Indication of availability
I can work on RSSAC documents for about 8 hours/month and will be available for most caucus meetings, remotely or physically.

Formal roles and interests in the work of RSSAC
Presently no formal roles
Was responsible for f.root-servers.net while at ISC, including active participation with colleagues in RSSAC and other organisational and governance issues around the root server system.
Directed the creation of ISC-TN-2003-1, ISC-TN-2004-1 so that there would be a written record of how F-root was being anycasted for other people to see.
I am one of the root zone KSK trusted community representatives.

Links where appropriate https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdamas
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdamas> 

Kim Davies

Name
Kim Davies

Affiliation and Current Position
ICANN; Director, Technical Services

Relevant Qualifications

  • Involved in DNS registry operations since 1990s
  • Co-founder and director of .au ccTLD Manager
  • Established and ran Internet peering point WAIX (now IX-Australia)
  • Technical Policy Officer for CENTR
  • DNS Root Management related roles at ICANN

Links where appropriate:
http://kimdavies.com

Motivation for Membership in Caucus
Ensuring ongoing stability of the DNS root service by participating in discussions and work of mutual interest between the root zone operator community and the IANA functions operator.

Indication of Availability
Engaging with interested and affected stakeholders in the IANA functions, and the DNS root zone in particular, is a component of my role at ICANN and an overall commitment ICANN has undertaken to resource.

Formal roles and interests in the Work of RSSAC

  • ICANN's Functional Liaison for Root Zone Management
  • Direct involvement in DNS related aspects of the IANA functions
  • Manage the Cryptographic Business Operations (Root KSK) team at ICANN

Paul de Weerd

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  • Name: Paul de Weerd
  • Affiliation and current position: RIPE NCC, Manager GII (team responsible for DNS services at the RIPE NCC)
  • Relevant qualifications:
    • K-root operator for 9+ years
    • Manager of the team responsible for the DNS services of the RIPE NCC (including Kroot)
    • Several years of experience running Authoritative and Recursive name severs at Dutch business ISPs
  • Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus: To represent RIPE NCC and K-Root, specifically from an operational perspective.
  • Indication of availability: As needed
  • Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC: Responsible for operation and governance of K-root as manager of the operational team that deals with our instance at the RIPE NCC.
  • Links where appropriate:
    K-Root https://www.ripe.net/analyse/dns/k-root
    Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/weerd/

Peter DeVries

Name
Peter DeVries

Affiliation and Current Position
DNS Subject Matter Expert, Quotient Inc.

Relevant Qualifications
Working as a DNS operator and engineer for the past 20 years. I am currently DNS Subject Matter Expert supporting Quotient Inc. with some taskings directly related to the G root server. While I have attended many IETFs and DNS-OARCs my work does not always permit me to be front and center so my name may not be as wide spread. I started in DNS back with BIND 4 when DNS administration was mostly a side task of UNIX administrators. Through multiple jobs I ended up working with dedicated focus on DNS in 2002. I was involved with some of the early G root anycast efforts and have built out numerous DNS security solutions. During DNSSEC development, I was a part of test labs and early evaluation of the RFCs. I’ve monitored the old dnsext and current dnsop mailing lists for many years.

Recently I am heavily involved in monitoring DNS systems from different perspectives and via different data sources to provide visualization of problems within the DNS infrastructure. In addition, I package custom BIND builds in various package formats.

Motivation
Continued interest in the DNS protocol and operations. Finding a useful outlet to some of my knowledge of my long history of DNS.

Availability
I can spend a few hours a month on RSSAC documents. I plan to be at most upcoming DNS-OARCs. I would mostly plan to dial into RSSAC meetings unless they line up with other conferences.

Formal Roles (if any) and Interests in the Work of RSSAC:
None

Brian Dickson

Statement of Interest for RSSAC Caucus

Name: Brian Dickson

Employer: GoDaddy, Inc., Principal Software Development Engineer

Relevant qualifications

  • Have worked in DNS-‐related areas at GoDaddy, Verisign and Afilias
  • Have done DNS security-‐related research at Verisign
  • Have done DNS protocol work (including co-‐author of AS112 draft at
    IETF)
  • Have done DNS implementation work at GoDaddy, Verisign, and on my
    own time

Motivation for membership in the Caucus

  • Have interest in the intersections of scalability, security, reliability, and
    privacy, in DNS.
  • Want to ensure experienced but non-root-server affiliated representatives
    are part of caucus.

Indication of availability
Generally available to work at least part-‐time on projects of this nature (20%), and some ability to travel (e.g. to IETF, NANOG, RIPE, DNS-‐OARC meetings)

Formal roles and interests in the work of RSSAC

  • Interest is professional but not yet formally part of responsibilities in my day job.
  • Interested in contributing back what I have learned, and to a lesser degree, in establishing professional credits on real-‐world (vs academic) papers/publications.

Paul Ebersman

Statement of Interest

Name
Paul Ebersman

Affiliation and current position
Principal Engineer, Neustar

Relevant qualifications
35 years large scale UNIX/IP/DNS, involvement in IETF, DNS-OARC, ICANN (SSAC), NANOG/RIPE.

Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus 
My current job involves DNS from registry to registrar to registrant/auth to recursive DNS. Many issues related to root server operations have large overlap with these areas. I think that my operations background could be helpful, and I want to stay current with the work and research the root operator community is doing.

Indication of availability
I regularly attend at least 1-2 ICANNs, 2-3 IETFs and 1 OARC meeting per year and my employer supports this involvement. I am also regularly on conference calls in support of various volunteer work I do.

Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC
$DAYJOB runs registries, acts as a registrar and runs auth servers for TLDs, 2nd/3rd level domains.

Links where appropriate
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pebersman/

I am happy to supply additional info, CV, etc. and I'll be at the IETF in Prague if you would like to talk in person. Thank you!

Mohamed Elnour Abdelhafez Fadul

RSSAC Caucus Membership Application
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  • Name: Mohamed Elnour Abdelhafez Fadul (wdelnour@gmail.com)
  • Affiliation and current position: (.SD) registry, IDN ccTLD - Info-Sec Team Lead, SDNOG committee member,  IPv6 education logo program committee member. IPv6 trainer, DevSecOps (remote), Leader at ISOC Sudan Chapter, ICANN fellowship alumni (ICANN67, ICANN75)
  • Relevant qualifications:
    BSc in Telecommunication Engineering
    MSc in computer and networks.
    Ph.D. ongoing.
    IPv6 certified network engineer - IPv6forum
    IPv6 certified Security engineer - IPv6forum
    IPv6 certified trainer - IPv6forum
    CEH UNIX/Linux and DNS operations
    CYBERDIPLOMACY SCHOOL OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE (MEAC-SIG)
    Industry 4.0 and IoT - MALAYSIA SMART INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
    MANRS certified by ISOC
    Encryption course by ISOC
  • Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus:
    The caucus purpose is relevant to my activities where i am involved in the DNS industry at the level of a ccTLD. i was also motivated after i attended some of the RSSAC sessions during ICANN75.
  • Indication of availability:
    I am willing to attend online or in-person meetings, i am able to dedicate about 10hrs per month.
  • Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC:
    Currently, i do not have any role at RSSAC. but i am part of a few related mailing lists.
  • Links where appropriate:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/mo-hafez/

Hafiz Farooq

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  • Name: Hafiz Farooq
  • Affiliation and current position: Saudi Aramco, Senior Network Security Architect
  • Relevant qualifications: JNCIE-SEC, JNCIS-ENT, CCIE-R&S, CISSP, CISM, GIAC-GCFE
  • Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus: I have extensive experience in Routing in Switching due to my past background with Juniper Networks, Dell and currently with Saudi Aramco. I have Masters in Communication Networks and multiple relevant certifications (CCIE/JNCIE, CISSP, CISM, GCFE, etc). I want to contribute with my best technical abilities to the team.
  • Indication of availability: 8 hours per week
  • Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC: NA
  • Links where appropriate: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hmfarooq/

Michael Frauenhoffer

Name
Michael Frauenhoffer

Affiliation and current position
Contractor (ICF) at the US Army Research Lab (H-Root operator), Systems Administrator.

Relevant qualifications
Administrator for the H-Root Server.
Participation in Root-Server Ops Meetings and Caucus Meetings.

Motivation for membership in the RSSAC Caucus
Researching the security of name server Operations and Analysis of DNS metrics.
Assist RSSAC Caucus in root server operations.

Indication of availability
Available to participate in all Caucus meetings with possible RSSAC Caucus working group attendance.

Formal roles (if any) and interests in the work of RSSAC
Analysis of root DNS operations, performance, and security.

Kazunori Fujiwara

Name
Kazunori Fujiwara

Affiliation and Current Position
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd (JPRS), (Senior) Researcher

Relevant Qualifications

  • Co-author of RFC 7719 “DNS Terminology”.
  • Co-author of RFC 8198 “Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache” that reduces queries to root servers.
  • Received Ph.D degree from University of Tsukuba (2015) about DNS traffic analysis and reduction of DNS load.
  • Analyzing root DITL dataset for several years.
  • Planed and evaluated DNSSEC implementation in JP.

Motivation
My motivation is to make Internet/DNS stable. I would like to know current status of DNS (includes root) and improve DNS protocols/implementations/configurations.

Indication of Availability
I can work for DNS research most of time. I attend IETF meetings (and DNS-OARC meetings).

Formal Roles
N/A

Links
http://member.wide.ad.jp/~fujiwara/
https://jprs.co.jp/en/

Name
Statement of Interest
John Bond
Anand Buddhdev
Robert Carolina
Brett Carr
Michael Casadevall
Harish Chowdhary
David Conrad
Bruce Crabill
John Crain
Stephen D Crocker
João Damas
Kim Davies
Paul de Weerd
Peter DeVries
Brian Dickson
Paul Ebersman
Mohamed Elnour Abdelhafez Fadul
Hafiz Farooq
Michael Frauenhoffer
Kazunori Fujiwara