Re: wrt joao damas' DLV talk on wednesday

[Joe Abley <jabley () ca afilias info>]

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