Mark, On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:54:41AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > This proposal is a way to move forward without waiting for > the politics of signing the root to resolve. This is > the classic case of the network routing around a blockage. > I do believe that it will eventually resolve but at glacial > pace. Or is it helping the blockage to persist as there will be less pressure to get this issue resolved ? As the RIPE community stated in an earlier message to ICANN, blocking the operational deployment of IETF technology is in fact undermining the security and stability of the Internet (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/icann-root-signing.pdf) and is thereby a very serious issue. I much prefer to have the IAB and IESG work on encouraging ICANN to get the root signed than that they (and IANA) spend time and resources on "temporary" workarounds. David Kessens --- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf