Patrik,

Nobody is talking about creating NTAs. NTAs already exist. The question for 
this group is whether or not they are worth standardising.


Joe

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On 2012-04-15, at 2:34, "Patrik Fältström" <p...@frobbit.se> wrote:

> On 15 apr 2012, at 03:23, Warren Kumari wrote:
> 
>> Once most ISPs are performing validation there should be fewer screwups, and 
>> NTAs should be almost never needed -- but until we get to that point I think 
>> that they are needed, and the net security wins outweigh the costs…
> 
> ...and my point is that the effort should be spent on convincing AT&T, Cox 
> and others to do validation just like Comcast. And to inform the users, press 
> and others that for example it was NASA and not Comcast that had problems.
> 
> Solution is not to do a work around in the IETF that have all different kind 
> of security implications, similar to the ones Doug describes.
> 
> Creating NTAs so that people, as Doug says, can turn off validation per zone 
> without interaction with whoever is responsible for the zone, without 
> interaction with whoever *decided* that the zone should be signed, and 
> without knowing whether it is a security incident or just a management 
> mistake, is I think the end of DNSSEC.
> 
> So, I rather see those that do not feel comfortable taking the discussion 
> with the press and their customers (and of course this is also due to zone 
> owners not doing enough press and help when they screw up) turn off 
> validation completely, and then work together in whatever community they 
> operate with other resolver operators to turn on validation on the same day, 
> with the help of ISOC and whoever and have a DNSSEC validation launch day. 
> Similar work that you at Google did for IPv6.
> 
> Much better than creating NTAs.
> 
> I see *today* many mistakes we have made that see the need for DNSSEC, and we 
> could, and still can, learn from the IPv6 advocates on how to deploy 
> something new. Easy to say afterwards though.
> 
>   Patrik
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