On Aug 23, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote:
> if nasa.gov had screwed up its delegation or had allowed its public secondary 
> servers to expire the zone due to primary unreachability, i do not think the 
> phone at comcast would have rung less, but i also don't think that comcast 
> would have fixed nasa's error in local policy.

That's because every resolver operator would have been affected, not just 
Comcast, so the screams that Comcast (alone) was censoring NASA for <conspiracy 
theory du jour) would have been trivially dismissed.

If you want a reminder of the stupidity Comcast (alone AFAIK) experienced, see 
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/01/comcast-blocks.html

> we're only talking about this because DNSSEC is new.

Of course. NTA is a mechanism that allows folks who want to do the right thing 
to do so without incurring costs that folks who aren't interested in doing the 
right thing won't incur.  As more folks start validating, the playing field 
levels out and the need for NTA decreases.

Regards,
-drc

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