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To: lewis@tislabs.com (Edward Lewis)
Cc: mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp, lewis@tislabs.com, dnsop@cafax.se
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 0 1:20:37 JST
In-Reply-To: <v03130317b51b9eca60b9@[10.33.10.14]>; from "Edward Lewis" at Apr 14, 100 1:11 am
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Off-tree validation

Edward;

> >The answer can be: secured, not secured or unknown (because of server
> >failure or DoS).
> 
> Depends on which side you are looking at the problem from.

You are not looking at the problem.

> If I get an answer from a zone that has no SIG record attached, should I
> seek the SIG record?  If I can be reliably (securely) told that the zone
> has not signatures, I will accept the answer as it is.

If you need security, you can't accept the answer and the result
is no different from the case of:

	> If I am told nothing,

If you don't need security, you don't need security.

> If I am told nothing, I should be able to identify the
> point at which the uncertainty starts, and if I am a problem solver, I know
> where to begin.

There is no problem to solve, here.

							Masataka Ohta


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