Re: [DNSOP] Expiration impending: <draft-jabley-dnssec-trust-anchor-11.txt>

[George Michaelson <[e-mail]>]

If its on the internet, its not out of band.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Joe Abley <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On 5 Oct 2015, at 10:42, George Michaelson wrote:
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> > Something very left field for me, but I believe important, is that we
> need
> > to also publish the out-of-band publication point of the trust material.
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> This draft is exclusively concerned with publishing trust anchors
> out-of-band of the protocol.
>
> > I mentioned this to Joe some time ago and was very correctly told "out of
> > scope" but I believe its nonsensical to exclude physical publication, eg
> in
> > newspapers of record for at least 3 economies worldwide, of the hash of
> the
> > public key as a standing event.
>
> This draft aims to document current practice. To my knowledge, nobody has
> ever published a trust anchor (or even a pointer to it) in print media.
>
> > In-band only has some issues for me, if we are talking about trust.
>
> Me too, hence the decision by ICANN to publish trust anchors using
> out-of-band mechanisms in 2009/2010, as this draft aims to document.
>
>
> Joe
>