Dear DNS WG, there is no real good excuse I could come up with for the long delay, so I won't try. With apologies, please find attached the ASCII version of a first draft document of an update to RIPE-203 "Recommended DNS SOA Values" and a diff to the original(*) version. Changes are a new value for the negative TTL, an explicit hint that the recommended values should not be unconditionally enforced and some editorial updates. Feedback welcome, with one early opportunity during this afternoon's WG session. -Peter (*) the "original" version was based on the text version of an Internet-Draft and thus contains some potentially confusing headers and footers. These were edited away before applying the "diff" function. <ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-203.txt>