>
> Mark,
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:54:41AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >
> > This proposal is a way to move forward without waiting for
> > the politics of signing the root to resolve. This is
> > the classic case of the network routing around a blockage.
> > I do believe that it will eventually resolve but at glacial
> > pace.
>
> Or is it helping the blockage to persist as there will be less
> pressure to get this issue resolved ?
I suspect the answer to that is how many TLDs are waiting
for there to be somewhere to send their DNSKEYS/DS records?
IANA, I believe, would be the collector in either case. This
would, if nothing else, get that piece in place.
> As the RIPE community stated in an earlier message to ICANN, blocking
> the operational deployment of IETF technology is in fact undermining
> the security and stability of the Internet
> (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/icann-root-signing.pdf) and is
> thereby a very serious issue. I much prefer to have the IAB and IESG
> work on encouraging ICANN to get the root signed than that they (and
> IANA) spend time and resources on "temporary" workarounds.
>
> David Kessens
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