Hi,

I'm in favour of adopting this draft.
I believe it will be useful to have this as a reference in a DR plan,
especially but not exclusively, during the task of replacing old HSMs with
new ones.


Felipe

Em qui., 19 de fev. de 2026 às 12:27, Martin Pels <[email protected]> escreveu:

> Hello,
>
> As co-author I'm naturally in favor of WG adoption. I wanted to respond
> to some the feedback so far to clarify our reasoning for publishing this.
>
> The idea for this draft came to light during our work preparing for
> ISO27001 certification.
>
> Since we operate infrastructure that is critical to the operation for
> large parts of the Internet, our risk analysis for business continuity
> includes major events such as natural disasters and wars, with
> country-level impact. While we have both technical and operational
> measures in place for redundancy and backups, these may not be
> sufficient in the aforementioned scenarios. It is fairly easy to keep
> many copies of signed zones with public DNS data around. Doing the same
> for signer keys, while keeping them secure, is not.
>
> Does documenting this process stress the complexity and fragility of
> DNSSEC? Perhaps, but not documenting the risks and how to recover from
> them will not make those risks disappear. And as with many things, this
> procedure is only complicated if you have never done it before. After
> having performed a couple of trial runs of this process ourselves, we
> found that it is fairly logical and not much more complicated than a
> manual regular key rollover.
>
> There is also the NIS2[0] legislation to consider, which will apply to
> many DNS providers in the EU. We therefore expect more organisations
> will have a need to write down and test disaster recovery scenarios.
> Having a formal document to refer to (rather than a random blog post)
> could help in this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin
>
> [0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2022/2555/2022-12-27/eng
>
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