> On 21 Oct 2018, at 17:40, fujiw...@jprs.co.jp wrote:
> 
>> From: Vladimír Čunát <vladimir.cu...@nic.cz>
>> On 10/17/18 11:18 PM, fujiw...@jprs.co.jp wrote:
>>> 4. In my opinion, Ed25519 is best algorithm some yars later.
>>>   If the document describes both current RECOMMENDATIONS and
>>>   RECOMMENDATIONS some years later, we can plan.
>> 
>> 
>> I agree, but the last paragraph of 3.1 seems to express that already:
> 
> Yes.
> 
> # I'm afraid that some TLD/Root operators may not support ED25519
> # because it is RECOMMENDED (not MUST).

The I-D already says:

>    It is expected that deprecation of an algorithm will be performed
>    gradually.  This provides time for various implementations to update
>    their implemented algorithms while remaining interoperable.  Unless
>    there are strong security reasons, an algorithm is expected to be
>    downgraded from MUST to NOT RECOMMENDED or MAY, instead of to MUST
>    NOT.  Similarly, an algorithm that has not been mentioned as
>    mandatory-to-implement is expected to be introduced with a
>    RECOMMENDED instead of a MUST.

and the last paragraph of 3.1 explicitly says:

>           It is
>           expected that ED25519 will become the future RECOMMENDED
>           default algorithm once there's enough support for this
>           algorithm in the deployed DNSSEC validators.

I don’t think more handholding would be appropriate of IETF RFC.

Thanks for all the comments,
--
Ondřej Surý
ond...@isc.org
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