Re: [dnsext] historal root keys for upgrade path?

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Thu, 27 January 2011 18:25 UTC

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On 2011-01-27, at 11:07, Nicholas Weaver wrote:

> Lets face it, 98% of the root key rollovers are going to be benign, on that once-a-year schedule.

There is no established schedule for rolling the root zone's KSK. All we have said to date is that we don't expect to do it any time soon, because it's not clear that support for automated handling of such an event is well-deployed in clients.


Joe