On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:03:51AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Hi all, > > The last discussion of signing ROOT-SERVERS.NET involved the arguments > that there's no real value in signing the zone and that there is a > non-zero cost to doing so. > > I agree with both of those arguments, but I wonder whether it might > not be a better sales job if we just accepted it maybe ought to be > signed anyway. I'm aware that it runs against the grain to do > something purely for theatrical reasons, but sometimes people like a > good show. Every time this topic comes up (especially outside IETF > circles, where one can perhaps be expected to understand the detailed > arguments), a number of people argue that it's really necessary to > sign the zone, or that having an exception for this sets some kind of > precedent, or something. I think these discussions waste a lot of > time, and so as a purely tactical measure it strikes me that we could > shut down that line of argument by just signing the data. > > Thoughts?
That is the most sensible way to go and finaly cease upper layers comments. So +1. Fred _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
