Re: [DNSOP] zonemd/xhash versus nothing new

Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net> Tue, 31 July 2018 00:03 UTC

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From: Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>
To: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] zonemd/xhash versus nothing new
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Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> writes:

> What I see is that:
> 
> We are looking at a way to distribute the root zone
...
> maybe this is also useful for non-root zones, so the method was sort
> of made to apply generically.
...
> I think the use for non-root zones is quite a different use case, so if
> I ignore that, we are looking at specifically the root zone only.

Please don't ignore that.  We really do ourselves a disservice when we
design a solution that only works for singular or minimal instances.
This is beneficial to more than just the root zone.

-- 
Wes Hardaker
USC/ISI