Only the zone authority can publish a DNSSEC signed zone. Anyone can claim to publish a view of a non-DNSSEC signed zone.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Dick Franks <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3 July 2018 at 16:40, Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 3 Jul 2018, at 09:11, Matthew Pounsett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > This is not a complete review of the latest revision.. I'm hoping to get >> > to that in a day or two. But I've got a question about whether something >> > should be added to the document.. >> > >> > A question came up in conversation recently about the use of the verb >> > "to publish" in reference to managing DNS data. It quickly became clear >> > that there may be a common overloading of terms, where the same word means >> > different things to different people. I wasn't sure this fell into the >> > scope of the terminology document, but I just checked and it does use >> > "publish" in reference to DNS data, so perhaps we should come up with a >> > definition for that. >> > >> > To me, publishing DNS data has always meant the generation of the zone >> > and the data it contains, as distinct from distributing the zone (to name >> > servers, possibly though zone transfer) and serving the zone (making it >> > available to be queried on a name server). To the person I was speaking >> > to, >> > "publishing" meant putting that data on Internet-facing name servers that >> > would answer queries about it. >> >> To me, DNS data is published when it is made available to actors who wish >> to consume it. That means serving the data (i.e. having servers with the >> data available to answer queries). I have never heard "publish" used to mean >> zone generation. A zone, once generated, is not published until it is >> available for access by others. > > > agree, the word carries the usual dictionary meaning: > > publish v.t. to make public; to divulge; to announce; to proclaim; to set > forth to the public; > to put forth and offer for sale orig. any article, now books, newspapers, > etc.; > to put into circulation. > > zone generation without the "setting forth" does not appear to qualify. > > > Dick > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop > _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
