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To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us, Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>, keydist@cafax.se
From: Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>
Date: 26 Mar 2002 21:43:09 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200203262029.g2QKTpt22742@astro.cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: My take on the BoF session

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:

> > Any comments on the actual suggestion? I.e. in addition to the clear
> > drawback of being a business opportunity, what is it that you don't
> > like?

My point was not at all about selling expertise, it was about
adjusting the delegation chain to better reflect a trust chain.

> it makes perfect sense to me for folks with security clue to attempt
> to sell their expertise to folks who lack such clue.
> 
> but I don't see how this impacts the design of DNSSEC or of protocols 
> using DNSSEC.

It doesn't. But that wasn't the issue. 

You complained about adding more dependency on the public DNS root by
making it a security apex in addition to a naming apex. I also think
that you complained about the difficulties of choosing trustworthy
(DNS) parents, although I may have gotten that wrong.

All I did was to point out that DNS is flexible anough to
circumnavigate these problems in cases where the "security" binding is
more important than the "naming" binding.

Regards,

Johan


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