Re: [DNSOP] Tell me about tree walks

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Sun, 22 November 2020 16:38 UTC

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On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:56:58AM -0500,
 John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote 
 a message of 17 lines which said:

> I don't see why, since it only acts as a default.  Any registrant
> that cares which CA they use can publish their own CAA.

Yes but many registrants don't know about CAA or did not pay attention
to this subtle detail, so I still believe it is bad practice to climb
the tree looking for such data.