Re: [dnsext] CDS RRTYPE review - Comments period end Mar 29th

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 08 March 2011 20:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] CDS RRTYPE review - Comments period end Mar 29th
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Roy Arends wrote:
>
>    D.    Motivation for the new RRTYPE application?
>
>          To allow a copy of the DS RRset [RFC4034] to be published
>          in the child zone, which is used to update the parent DS RRset.
>          It is expected that this will allow the rollover of a key signing
>          key to be automated.

Why not just use the child zone's SEP DNSKEY RRs for this purpose?

Tony.
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