wrt joao damas' DLV talk on wednesday

Tue Jun 13 18:45:34 UTC 2006

On 13-Jun-2006, at 14:37, Randy Bush wrote:

>> I don't profess to speak for ISC here, but it may be worth noting
>> that ISC staff continue to spend a lot of time travelling to operator
>> meetings, workshops, root server installations and RIR and ICANN
>> meetings. Outreach and community participation is one of the core
>> things that ISC does.
>>
>> It's not unreasonable to think that for a lot of zone operators
>> (ccTLD or otherwise), the mountain will eventually come to Mohammed,
>> and travel by the zone operator won't be necessary.
>
> can you say "does not scale?"

Indeed.

With the current trust policy, it seems to me that DLV is a bootstrap  
mechanism intended to promote bottom-up pressure for DNSSEC  
deployment, and to give people a chance to get to grips with things  
like key rollover and zone signing.

It's a frog dressed up as a chicken which is being rolled out because  
people are fed up waiting for an egg.

In that context, perhaps it doesn't need to scale very far.

Joe