On Jul 8, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:

> Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think that is too simplistic: simply slaving the root zone doesn't give
>>> you any good way to detect or recover from a corrupted zone transfer. By
>>> the time normal DNSSEC validation has detected any problems it is too
>>> late.
>> 
>> Can you give a scenario where that second sentence is true? That is, if
>> a validating recursive resolver retrieves the entire signed zone,
>> validates the contents, and then puts all of the contents in the cache,
>> how can some problem happen "too late"?
> 
> If you do that (i.e. if you do what your draft specifies rather than what
> Ralf suggested) then you aren't simply slaving the zone (you are
> validating it too) and you aren't doing normal per-query on-demand DNSSEC
> validation.

Just to be clear: you are saying that what we actually say to in the draft 
doesn't have the "too late" issue you refer to above, correct?

--Paul Hoffman
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