January 2004 - ncc-services-wg

E-mail Client Testing for S/MIME Compliance
by Denis Walker 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

[apologies for duplicate messages] Dear Colleagues, At the RIPE 45 Meeting a proposal was presented to implement an additional form of strong authentication for protecting objects in the RIPE Database and to allow for secure communication by e-mail with the RIPE NCC. This implementation uses the X.509 certificates. A question was raised by some members about how widespread is the compliance of S/MIME within mail clients. The RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department has undertaken a study to evaluate the use of S/MIME by mail clients. The results of this study can be found on our web site at: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/mail_client_tests.html Regards, -- Denis Walker Software Engineering Department RIPE NCC

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Domail Clean-up
by RIPE Database Manager 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Dear Colleagues, As of 6 January, 2004, messages concerning inconsistencies between "nserver:" attributes in DOMAIN objects and delegation NS RRs in our zone files will be sent out. The messages will be mailed to various contact addresses for the relevant DOMAIN objects. In addition to the description of the inconsistencies, an indication of the 'default actions' will also be provided. We kindly request data be updated so that the inconsistencies are corrected before 1 March, 2004. About two weeks before 1 March, 2004 we will send a second set of warnings for the remaining inconsistencies. By 1 March, 2004 all remaining inconsistencies will be cleaned by the RIPE NCC, using the 'default actions'. If you receive a warning about inconsistencies we recommend that you fix the data yourself. It may be that you receive multiple mails for multiple domains with multiple inconsistencies. If you want to configure a dedicated mail filter the messages will contain the subject header "Subject: Reverse DNS inconsistencies in the RIPE Database" and originate "From: <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>". If you have further questions please contact <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Background The cleanup is part of the effort to streamline reverse DNS operations [1] and make it easier for network range users to manipulate related DOMAIN objects. The goal of the cleanup [2] is to streamline the contents of DOMAIN objects and zone configuration files so that we can create zone files from the Whois Database. An explanation of the various possible inconsistencies can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/reverse/rdns-project/Cleanup.html. ----- [1]: Original proposal http://www.ripe.net/reverse/proposal.html. Discussion on this proposal has taken place on the RIPE NCC Services WG mailing list and was summarized in: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/ncc-services-wg/2003/msg00361.html [2]: Original cleanup proposal http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/db-wg/2003/msg00738.html. ----- Can Bican Software Engineering Department Olaf Kolkman New Projects Group RIPE NCC

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Call for agenda items
by Kurt Erik Lindqvist 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Again, if people have something they would like to bring up at the next NCC WG meeting, please send me an email. Best regards, - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBP/WyYaarNKXTPFCVEQIeYQCg5nDrjSUTu/KhOgh+DHzljqbwbrcAn2sR dMArqQhdu93Dv4DFOaFJTqmt =OpOv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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