Re: Last WG call for draft-ietf-dnsop-root-opreq-02.txt.

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> and of course, the decision on this is ultimately taken by the people
> responsible for the master root name server, unlike most of the rest of
> the doc, where all the root name server operators have to make decisions.

actually, i could easily see different operators using different oob
channels, a paranoid operator using more than one channel, ...

but yes, the draft wording assumes operators have a general concept of 'out
of band' data exchange.  i just feared wording such as "a method other than
those of the dns protocols, e.g. axfr, ixfr, etc." was as much, or more, of
a rathole as assuming "oob" was an understood term.

i probably am forgetting something significant in some relevant document,
but how is end of line encoded in a zone file?  if one is to compare hashes,
either the hash must ignore line ends (which might offer a security
vulnerability) or there must be a common understanding of the value of a
line end.

randy