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plan 2017

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An overview of things we'd like to have in 2017. Same quarterly plan with one quarter focusing on bringing new features (tick) and second quarter for polishing and documentation (tock).

The plan is subject to change.

Q1 2017 (New features)

Feature Target Status
DNSSEC Validation in FORWARDing mode daemon #112 (closed) @gdemidov
More comprehensive test suite deckard known problems + #91 (closed) @pspacek
Support for link-local addresses daemon #101 (closed) @vcunat
Automated comparative testing of resolvers tests @jholusa
Continuous Integration in GitLab CI support @ondrej

Q2 2017 (Wrapping up & optimizations)

Feature Target Status
Improve validator based on benchmarks [1] lib #45 (closed) #33 (closed) @all
Improve FORWARDing performance policy @all
Continuous Integration in GitLab CI on more platforms support @oerdnj
Internal documentation lib + daemon + modules @all

[1] Including libdnssec improvements (mbedtls for openwrt boxes, openssl for other because ecdsa is painfully slow in other cryptolibs)

Q3 2017 (New features)

Feature Target Status
RFC 8198: Aggressive use of NSEC/NSEC3 lib #108 (closed) @vcunat
Outgoing DNS over TLS daemon #104 (closed) @gdemidov

Q4 2017 (Wrapping up & optimizations)

Feature Target Status
Parallel queries lib+daemon #36 #32
Deployment at Comcast @all
DNS Privacy Improvements daemon
Defensive cache usage in case of upstream outages lib #106 (closed)

Tentatively 2018

Feature Target Status
RFC 7706 - Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on Loopback modules
TCP Performance Testing testing
Improve TCP performance (RFC 7766: DNS Transport over TCP) daemon #107 (closed)
Improve TLS performance daemon