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

[Shane Kerr <[e-mail]>]

Joe,

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:59:00 -0400
"Joe Abley" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I appreciate that the methods described in this document are not 
> universally liked. I have a feeling that we would get more discussion if 
> the question was more open-ended, e.g. how should trust anchors be 
> published?
> 
> This document describes existing practice, and provides guidance for 
> people who need to bootstrap a validator using the mechanisms provided 
> by ICANN back in 2009/2010 when the root zone was first published.
> 
> Here's a suggestion. If we were to consider publishing this document 
> as-is as a way of describing the current approach, we would at least 
> have a stable reference to the way we do things today. We could always 
> consider other approaches and, once implemented by ICANN, publish a new 
> document that obsoletes or updates this one.
> 
> If that's an approach that people could stomach, then I would suggest 
> the next step is to WGLC this document and for those who would like to 
> propose different mechanisms to write them down.

Given that this is supposed to turn into an informational RFC, and it
provides information about how the IANA currently publishes trust
anchors, I fully support it going forward as is.

Cheers,

--
Shane