[DNSOP] Re: Disclosure of Negative Trust Anchors in DNS Responses (draft-farrokhi-dnsop-ede-nta-00)

Joe Abley <jabley@strandkip.nl> Mon, 13 July 2026 14:40 UTC

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On 13 Jul 2026, at 16:26, Petr Špaček <pspacek@isc.org> wrote:

>> Clients that require integrity protection of these signals should use an authenticated and encrypted transport between client and resolver, such as DNS over TLS [RFC7858] or DNS over HTTPS [RFC8484]. See Section 6 of [RFC8914] for more discussion.
> 
> Could we drop the encryption part? TSIG or SIG(0) is a fine integrity protection, too. No need to encrypt when it's not needed.

Thanks, we will make the text more general and avoid the suggestion that encrypted transports are the only way.


Joe