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To: dee3@torque.pothole.com (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
Cc: dnsop@cafax.se, dee3@torque.pothole.com
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 99 13:57:53 JST
In-Reply-To: <199912030353.WAA19637@torque.pothole.com>; from "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" at Dec 2, 99 10:53 pm
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Last WG call for draft-ietf-dnsop-root-opreq-02.txt.

Donald;

> I believe that experience indicates that confirmation via independent
> transmission routes, even if each is "insecure", substantially
> increates reliablity of the result over a single insecure
> transmission.

Yes. Harald could have said just "email", instead of giving false
impression that unsigned emails are less secure than telephone
or fax.

> >> > "An operator of a root zone server MUST be able to get proof of the 
> >> > correctness of a zone file from the authority responsible for updating it 
> >> > by means not involving DNS operations, for example by telephone, fax, 
> >> > signed email with a trusted signature or other means".

							Masataka Ohta

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