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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

Despite the confusion about the vote, it does seem to have followed the 
stated policies.  Also I was not able to find any objections to the TLD 
proposal, so it seems the vote passed unanimously.  My only (personal) 
objection would be that such a short vote period was called during a 
major US holiday when many people weren't paying attention, but that 
would be a different discussion of updating and clarifying the rules.

As it stands, the records have been updated to support the .o zone, and 
NS11 has been added to manage it.

Some work has been done this week on the opennic.glue zone, finalizing 
its home with LDAP and setting up the automation to push out updates.  
This change has also caused a roll-back in the serial for the file.  The 
old file began with "2016", the new one begins with just "16".  Please 
check to make sure you have the right file and manually force updates as 
needed.

In other news, we have lost a number of Tier2 servers recently, but we 
have also gained some anycast servers (marked as 'any' in the various 
lists).  There are still issues with DNSSEC support, but the root zone 
and a number of TLDs are supporting it now.  I don't believe we have any 
support for DNSSEC records at the domain level yet.  There has also been 
a lot of recent talk on IRC regarding updating the website and wiki 
contents -- if you want to get involved, jump in the chat and find out 
where you can help!