[dns-wg] root zone signing

bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:26:12PM +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
>> I appreciate that some people will feel that legal agreements are an  
>> unavoidable consequence of signing. However that's a matter between  
>> the each TLD (and its government?) and those co-ordinating the root.  
>> There are no technical grounds for parent and child zones to have a  
>> legal agreement underpinning their use of DNSSEC. So if a TLD wants to  
>> have a signed delegation, they can do that with or without an  
>> agreement or anything that could be viewed as an acceptance of the way  
>> the root is managed today. If a TLD doesn't want to have a signed  
>> delegation, then they don't have to. Nobody's being compelled to do  
>> anything they don't want.
> 
> 	well... as Lutz has demostrated, its often difficult to 
> 	have a signed delegation and also be able to restrict whom
> 	picks up your DNSKEY and plops it into their version of the parent
> 	delegation.

DNSKEY is just a Resource Record, just like NS. The same arguments
apply to both, with equal meaning technically. People are applying
meaning to DNSSEC-related stuff that it does not actually have. For
some reason you are adding fuel to that fire.


Doug