On Jun 18, 2020, at 19:22, Ted Lemon <mel...@fugue.com> wrote:

> What I’m getting at is that the secure denial of existence will mean that a 
> DNSSEC-aware resolver, when asked to look up a name under .xa, for example, 
> will always return NXDOMAIN.

I think we're speculating about behaviour in software that has not yet been 
written, software that will have a natural requirement to deal with the 
environment it finds itself deployed in.

But it also occurs to me that if we agree that the great root zone KSK roll 
melodrama illustrated that we have a root zone trust anchor distribution 
problem, it's not much of a stretch to generalise that statement and say that 
we have a trust anchor distribution problem.

The root zone and private-use internal zones that anchor private namespaces 
might all benefit from a robust trust anchor distribution strategy. If 
validators have the ability to be configured elegantly with all the trust 
anchors they need without the attention of a knowledgeable administrator (as a 
validating stub resolver might need with the root zone trust anchor) we might 
find that the DNSSEC concerns that led to horrors like home.arpa all disappear.


Joe
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