On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM Paul Vixie via rssac-caucus < rssac-caucus@icann.org> wrote:
team, can we review the problem statement that yielded this draft?
Ken's recollection of how we got here: This all came out of the idea that we (RSSAC, RSS) have a "PR problem" within the ICANN community and among some regulators. This could be generalized as a lack of understanding, and in some cases, a mis-understanding of how the RSS works, how RSOs work together, and how secure/robust the RSS actually is. We started to put together a list of important concepts about the RSS and then map those to specific audiences. We then selected a specific audience to target first: regulators or their staff that would be able to digest some technical content and help support the dialog between RSSAC/RSS/RSOs and regulators. We had a 3-page paper that conveyed the basic concepts and sacrificed some accuracy for brevity. The group then shifted focus to the misperception that all DNS queries result in an exchange with the RSS which is conveyed in the current document. This document has been presented as a 15-minute talk to several small, mostly non-technical, audiences and has been well received. This may become a numbered RSSAC document in the future, but for now it is being used to educate and initiate dialog with regulators and other non-technical audiences. (my use of the term "non-technical audiences" here is a bit overzealous. More accurately, it should be "those not intimately familiar with DNS and the RSS") -Ken