I strongly prefer a regular rrtype over any kind of special processing or 
complicating dnssec further.

If axfr signatures aren’t enough because people envision non-dns zonefile 
transports, do a single ZONEMD, which signs the whole thing or only all records 
without RRSIG.

Paul

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> On Aug 1, 2018, at 09:14, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote:
> 
> Maybe changing RFC 4034 and RFC 4035 to have RRSIGs over non-authoritative 
> data is not the right way to go. It could break some current validators, and 
> it would be hard to let zones sign some but not all of the non-authoritative 
> data. (For example, I could imagine a zone owner wanting to sign the child NS 
> records but not the glue records.)
> 
> Instead, of the WG wants this functionality, it might be cleaner to create a 
> new record that acts like RRSIG but is used only on non-authoritative data. 
> Think of it as NONAUTH-RRSIG. We would need to define the new RRtype (with a 
> lot of pointers to RFC 4034), how it is used to sign (with a lot of pointers 
> to RFC 4035), how authoritative servers would include those records in 
> responses, and how validators would handle the records (this would probably 
> be the trickiest part).
> 
> This would lead to a cleaner upgrade path both for authoritative servers and 
> resolvers, and thus maybe make it more palatable to the current DNSSEC-using 
> population.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
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