[DNSOP] Re: [Ext] Re: Call for Adoption: draft-davies-internal-tld

[Joe Abley <[e-mail]>]

Replying to myself, hooray,

On 23 Apr 2025, at 18:16, Joe Abley <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I was a member of SSAC at the time SSAC made its recommendation to the ICANN board, but I was not one of the people who contributed significantly to the document as far as I remember, so be aware (as usual!) that everything I say may be nonsense.
> 
> I think the SSAC document does not discuss or propose an insecure delegation from the root zone in order to avoid the advice to the board being complicated by conflicts with existing root zone management (both in the general sense and in the sense of RZM, the software used to manage delegations from the root zone).

Some kind people reminded me of events of the past, so in case it's interesting...

It turns out that the SSAC work party responsible for that document did indeed decide not to recommend an insecure delegation for the reason above, and so it's definitively not the case that people didn't think of it or think that it was a good idea to recommend it.

I was one of the people that thought it was better not to include that specific recommendation, for the reason above, and in fact I said so loudly and stubbonly at the time. I had just forgotten.

I still think this was a reasonable recommendation to drop, and I still think that the resulting resolution shouldn't stand in the way of any particular technical implementation of the document's overall recommendation. People shouldn't read too much into the word "delegation" just because they're used to seeing it through a DNS lens. It definitely has other meanings in the context of the policies surrounding root zone management.


Joe