public consultation on root zone KSK rollover

Fri Apr 5 23:10:19 UTC 2013

< rant >

> The point of the wildly over-engineered root key signing ceremony is
> to build trust by publicly demonstrating at every step there is no
> opportunity for intentional or accidental badness to occur without
> being noticed.

at some point, long passed, the more pomp, the less safe i feel.  there
is protecting against technical/engineering threats and protecting
against layer 8 through 11.  through complexity, it compromises the
technical protection to go overboard on the lawyer defense.

from this bottom feeder's pov, icann, verisign, doc, ... are too often
the layer 8 through 11 threat than part of the engineering solution.

> In any event, if you haven't already I would encourage you to provide
> comments at the URL Joe referenced.

definitely.  after all, commenting on icann insanities has had such
serious beneficial effect for the good of the internet in the past.

randy