Re: [dnsext] Fwd: I-D Action:draft-jabley-dnssec-trust-anchor-00.txt

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Thu, 30 September 2010 13:25 UTC

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On 2010-09-30, at 13:12, John Dickinson wrote:

> Would it be useful for the xml to be able to provide information on the intentions of the zone operator. For example, at the moment a validator operator has no information about which of the 4 possible sections of an unbound conf to put this TA in.
> 
> Some hint like <RollMethod>RFC5011</RollMethod> would be useful IMHO.

If we were to include such machine-parseable tokens then I imagine we'd do it with XML elements that were specified in the schema, e.g.

  <RollMethod><rfc5011/></RollMethod>

However, I'm not convinced I understand the use case to which you refer. Can you explain further?


Joe