On 2010-09-30, at 18:42, Tony Finch wrote:

> I think it was a mistake to drop the trust anchor history draft, because
> it has a reaasonably coherent answer to the problem. I think the arguments
> that it is not secure enough are misguided. What we want is a way for
> software to bootstrap its DNSSEC trust anchor that is better than a leap
> of faith. This can perhaps be backed up with x.509 validation of the trust
> anchor once DNS is up and the higher levels of the stack are able to look
> up host names.

I don't follow your logic.

You seem to be saying that trust-history, which uses keys that should not be 
trusted, is better than using the root-anchor repository, where there are still 
some open questions.

Isn't the right approach to answer those open questions?


Joe
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