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==Issues==

==Issues==

Both Bush and Hubert were presenting at a time when the complexity of the DNS was rapidly expanding. Bush's presentation dealt substantially with the development of [[DNSSEC]] and related technological headaches and gaps.<ref name="bush /> In 2018, Hubert saw a comparable situation arising in 2018:

Both Bush and Hubert were presenting at a time when the complexity of the DNS was rapidly expanding. Bush's presentation dealt substantially with the development of [[DNSSEC]] and related technological headaches and gaps.<ref name="bush /> In 2018, Hubert saw a comparable situation arising in 2018:

<blockquote>Based on a wonderful chart compiled by ISC, I found that the DNS is now described by at least 185 RFCs. Some shell-scripting and HTML scraping later, I found that this adds up to 2,781 printed pages, comfortably more than two copies of ‘The C++ Programming Language (4th edition)’. This book is not known for its brevity...<br />

<blockquote>Based on a wonderful chart compiled by ISC, I found that the DNS is now described by at least 185 RFCs. Some shell-scripting and HTML scraping later, I found that this adds up to 2,781 printed pages, comfortably more than two copies of ‘The C++ Programming Language (4th edition)’. This book is not known for its brevity...

...My claim is that this rise is not innocent. As DNS becomes more complex, the number of people that ‘get it’ also goes down. Notably, the advent of DNSSEC caused a number of implementations to drop out (MaraDNS, MyDNS, for example).<br />

...My claim is that this rise is not innocent. As DNS becomes more complex, the number of people that ‘get it’ also goes down. Notably, the advent of DNSSEC caused a number of implementations to drop out (MaraDNS, MyDNS, for example).

Also, with the rise in complexity and the decrease in the number of capable contributors, the inevitable result is a drop in quality...<br />

Also, with the rise in complexity and the decrease in the number of capable contributors, the inevitable result is a drop in quality...

...And in fact, with the advent of DNSSEC, this is what we found. For several years, security and stability bugs in popular nameserver implementations were absolutely dominated by DNSSEC and cryptography-related issues.<ref name="hubert" /></blockquote>

...And in fact, with the advent of DNSSEC, this is what we found. For several years, security and stability bugs in popular nameserver implementations were absolutely dominated by DNSSEC and cryptography-related issues.<ref name="hubert" /></blockquote>

Bush and Hubert both identify one of the key issues as an unwillingness to say "no" to feature requests.<ref name="bush" /><ref name="hubert" />  

Bush and Hubert both identify one of the key issues as an unwillingness to say "no" to feature requests.<ref name="bush" /><ref name="hubert" />

==References==

==References==

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