SIG(0) was implemented in BIND 9 back when BIND 9 was basically the only modern 
implementation, and no one used it then.  The fact that no servers have 
implemented it since then means that there really isn’t any demand.

Brian  

> On Jun 19, 2018, at 2:20 PM, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote:
> 
> SIG(0) is much superior for machines updating their own data  to TSIG as you 
> don’t need a secondary storage for the TSIG key.   You can replace a master 
> server without having to worry about transferring TSIG secrets off a dead 
> machine. You just copy the zone from a slave and go.
> 
> There are other scenarios where it is also superior like automaton delegating 
>  In the reverse tree.
> 
> No I don’t think it should go. 
> 
> It should be widely implemented so it can be used. There is a lot of self 
> fulfilling prophecy in the DNS of people will never is this so we won’t 
> implement it. 
> 
> -- 
> Mark Andrews
> 
>> On 20 Jun 2018, at 06:48, Ondřej Surý <ond...@isc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> as far as I could find on the Internet there are only SIG(0) implementation 
>> in handful DNS implementations - BIND, PHP Net_DNS2 PHP library, 
>> Net::DNS(::Sec) Perl library, trust_dns written in Rust and perhaps others I 
>> haven’t found; no mentions of real deployment was found over the Internet 
>> (but you can blame Google for that)...
>> 
>> Do people think the SIG(0) is something that we should keep in DNS and it 
>> will be used in the future or it is a good candidate for throwing off the 
>> boat?
>> 
>> Ondrej
>> --
>> Ondřej Surý
>> ond...@isc.org
>> 
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