On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:33:05AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 07:12:56PM +0000,
> bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com <bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote
> a message of 49 lines which said:
>
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> > directories.
> >
> > Title : Root Name Server Operational Requirements
> > Author(s) : Root Server System Advisory Committee
> > Filename : draft-rssac-dnsop-rfc2870bis-04.txt
>
> Section 3.2.1 : I do not understand why you need synced time for
> DNSSEC. The root name servers do not generate signatures.
but they do use TSIG. And historically, channel protection via
TSIG or SIG(0) was considered part of the DNSSEC tool box. Granted that
DNSSEC perception has changed over the years. but the need for sync'ed
clocks
is becuase of TSIG.
> Section 3.2.1 : Several root name servers, such as B, reply to ICMP
> echo requests, which I think is a good thing, but it seems disallowed
> in your document.
-I- think its a good idea, but others would prefer less transparency
> Section 4.2 : This advice directly contradicts RFC 6382. Do you plan
> to reclassify it as Historic?
It meaning RFC 6382? Not really. The draft was an attempt to
document current practice - with some leanings toward future directions.
> Section 5.1 : "Announcement of planned outages also keeps other
> operators from investigated a scheduled maintenance window." My
> english parser broke here. Should I upgrade it or should you rewrite
> the sentence?
investigated should be investigating. e.g. if you don't tell anyone
you are doing maintance work, observers will presume the worst and
start
to debug why the L root has gone offline.
> (For the record, I agree with most of Joe Abley's remarks on
> high-level issues with this document.)
There are some strong argumetns for simply stating operational
goals/principles
vs documenting practice. I beleive that we are working on a "mission
statement"
/bill
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