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 BIND 9
 
-       XXX  Introduction XXX
+       BIND version 9 is a major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the
+       underlying BIND architecture. This re-architecting of BIND was
+       necessitated by the expected demands of:
+
+               - Domain name system growth, particularly in very large
+                 zones such as .COM
+               - Protocol enhancements necessary to securely query and
+                 update zones
+               - Protocol enhancements necessary to take advantage of
+                 certain architectural features of IP version 6
+
+       These demands implied performance requirements that were not
+       necessarily easy to attain with the BIND version 8
+       architecture.  In particular, BIND must not only be able to
+       run on multi-processor multi-threaded systems, but must take
+       full advantage of the performance enhancements these
+       architectures can provide. In addition, the underlying data
+       storage architecture of BIND version 8 does not lend itself to
+       implementing alternative back end databases, such as would be
+       desirable for the support of multi-gigabyte zones. As such
+       zones are easily foreseeable in the relatively near future,
+       the data storage architecture needed revision. The feature
+       requirements for BIND version 9 included:
+
+               - Scalability
+                       Thread safety
+                       Multi-processor scalability
+                       Support for very large zones
+
+               - Security
+                       Support for DNSSEC
+                       Support for TSIG
+                       Auditability (code and operation)
+                       Firewall support (split DNS)
+
+               - Portability
+
+               - Maintainability
+
+               - Protocol Enhancements
+                       IXFR, DDNS, Notify, EDNS0
+                       Improved standards conformance
+
+               - Operational enhancements
+                       High availability and reliability
+                       Support for alternative back end databases
+
+               - IP version 6 support
+                       IPv6 resource records (A6, DNAME, etc.)
+                       Bitstring labels
+                       APIs
+
+       BIND version 9 development has been underwritten by the following
+       organizations:
+
+               Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+               Hewlett Packard
+               Compaq Computer Corporation
+               IBM
+               Process Software Corporation
+               Silicon Graphics, Inc.
+               Network Associates, Inc.
+               U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency
 
 
 BIND 9.0.0b1
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        The ISC does not recommend using BIND 9.0.0b1 for "production"
        services.
 
+       We hope users of BIND 9.0.0b1 will provide feedback, bug fixes, and
+       enhancements.  If you are not in a position to do so, it would
+       probably be better to wait until subsequent releases.
+
        Much of the core technology planned for BIND 9.0.0 is in this beta
        release.  Some of the highlights are:
 
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                Documentation
 
+                       Future releases will contain a lot more documentation,
+                       but a preliminary version of the Administrator's
+                       Reference Manual is in the doc/arm subdirectory.
+
 
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