On 2011-01-09, at 16:40, Zheng Wang wrote:

> I have a question on the ICANN's processing time of the regular DS RR rollover
> request from TLD operators. 
> 
> I find in ICANN's document saying that "the emergency change process will be
> completed and reflected in the root zone within 48 hours from the reception 
> of a
> valid emergency removal request", but this is only for an emergency change, 
> as the
> regular change is more frequently requested by the TLD operators, what about 
> the
> time taken by the scheduled key rollovers? 

Root zone changes (with no associated change of organisation, i.e. simple, 
technical changes with no layer-9 complications) tend to take the same amount 
of time to process regardless of whether they involve NS, A or DS RRSet 
changes. Since I don't work in that area I don't have any good statistics to 
give you, but i...@iana.org might be able to help if you need more.

Anecdotally, I've submitted DS record changes for various TLDs over the past 
few months (e.g. the test IDN TLDs, for which we rolled the KSK a while ago) 
and they were all processed in a few working days.

For a scheduled change, precise timing for the workflow seems less important 
than for emergency changes, since the TLD manager has the opportunity to 
generate the incoming keys in advance and submit the root zone change request 
before the replacement KSK is published. The final transition can then be 
managed by changes to the TLD zone, which is all in the TLD manager's control; 
the old DS records can be removed from the root zone later as a separate 
request.

Emergency changes are a different matter (since it's difficult to plan ahead of 
an unplanned emergency), which is why the 48-hour processing time was specified.


Joe
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