The point was to allow redistribution and to not depend on a trusted source 

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> On Aug 9, 2018, at 20:21, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-d...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 02:19:08PM +0000, Edward Lewis wrote:
>> 
>> FWIW, this message was spurred by this comic strip [yes, today as I write]: 
>> http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-08-09.
> 
> Cute.
> 
>> "Will the time taken to generate and verify this record add to the security 
>> of a zone transfer?"
> 
> Perhaps a sensible way to secure zone transfer is at the transport
> layer.  Presumably DNS over TLS is comaptible with AXFR.  If desired
> authentication can be via DANE.  Just publish a TLSA RRset:
> 
>    example.net. IN SOA nsa.example.net. hostmaster.example.net. ...
>    example.net. IN NS nsa.example.net.
>    nsa.example.net. IN A 192.0.2.1
>    _853._tcp.nsa.example.net. IN TLSA 3 1 1 
> fbefbd9e5b54696792bab92cf329669edaca16d0b09dcfdd16fe3e1bd8ab08e9
> 
> and do the AXFR transfer over TLS.  This does not require pre-computation
> of a zone checksum.  Just obtain the zone transfer from a suitably
> trusted source.
> 
> -- 
>    Viktor.
> 
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