Re: [dnsext] does making names the same NEED protocol changes at all?

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com> Fri, 25 February 2011 17:45 UTC

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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:43:29PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> Requiring slaves to be signers is a major change to the security model.

Depending on how you implement this, it might be.  But anyway, this is
why we are doing a requirements analysis _before_ we start planning
how to solve these problems, since it isn't obvious at least to me
that what you describe above is a requirement in any case.

A


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