Ben Schwartz <[email protected]> writes:

>    The list of IANA root zone data publication points, available at TBD-
>    URL, may be used to discover where the IANA root zone data can be
>    fetched from.
> 
> Presumably that is an HTTP URL.
> 
> I believe this HTTP dependency could be resolved by encoding this list
> into DNS RDATA in some fashion.  This would remove the dependency on
> HTTP.

That is not needed at run time (but can be used at run time).  So a
resolver itself need not be dependent on HTTP.  As per the document,
there are three ways to build the list of sources that a runtime
resolver users: local config, a compile time list, and a live list.
Only implementations that want to use the live list directly from IANA
at runtime need to support HTTP.  The rest do not (IE, the ones using a
local config or a compile time, default list of sources).

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Google

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