> > 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 ? I suspect the answer to that is how many TLDs are waiting for there to be somewhere to send their DNSKEYS/DS records? IANA, I believe, would be the collector in either case. This would, if nothing else, get that piece in place. > 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 > --- -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf