Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment

Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> Thu, 24 February 2011 13:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment
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On Feb 24, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> So you are saying that it is TOO LATE to make a change that would have major impact on the practice of domain management?

I'm stating that your "nobody validates DNSSEC" claim is demonstrably false.

> It really has to be one or the other. Either it is too late to make major change or its all on the table. 
> 
> Or alternatively, the proposed use case may not justify a major change.

OR the notion of online signature generation is not a change at all, but is something already supported in the protocol [1] and supported by at least two implementations.



[1] Where does the protocol require that signature generation is off-line?  

The key feature for data integrity is that the validating party is NOT necessarily the party contacting the authority.
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