On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Dan York <[email protected]> wrote:

> Paul,
> 
> On Oct 1, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 1, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Dan York <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Certainly ISOC *could* hold a meeting to discuss how to get DANE more 
>>> widely deployed ... and the people that would need to be at that meeting 
>>> would be, well, probably pretty much many of the people who would be at the 
>>> DANE working group meeting at IETF! 
>> 
>> We fully disagree there. Protocol developers are often not protocol 
>> deployers. For example, I do not contribute to DNS server or DNS admin 
>> projects; the same would be true for the large majority of the people who 
>> contributed ideas and comments to the DANE protocol.
>> 
>> ISOC could pull together a meeting of such protocol deployers, as well as 
>> enterprises who might find DANE useful, and I suspect the overlap between 
>> people at that meeting and the last DANE WG meeting would be very small.
> 
> Sigh... I will have to confess that you are probably on target here, 
> particularly as no one else has chimed in on this general thread in the last 
> 24 hours. 
> 
> And thus we continue with the challenge that we in the IETF typically define 
> something as "done" when "the protocol is defined" and not when "people can 
> actually use the protocol".  
> 
> Here we have this truly awesome piece of work, DANE, and here it will linger 
> in limbo until eventually maybe someday someone somewhere can implement it in 
> some fashion that some people can use in some way.
> 
> Certainly I can - and will - do everything I can both personally and within 
> ISOC's various means to get people talking about DANE and moving toward 
> deployment.  Within the Deploy360 Programme, we've been talking to a good 
> number of people about how to advance the advocacy and promotion of DNSSEC... 
> and we have been planning to incorporate DANE into that effort.  But as much 
> as we can do, we're still one organization - or even a group of organizations 
> and companies.  We need many more people involved.
> 
> I know you may not think of yourself as a "protocol deployer", Paul, but I 
> would argue that we do need everyone on this list thinking about how we can 
> get DANE deployed.
> 
> DANE is far too awesome - and far too powerful - to let it linger in limbo.

Thanks, we are glad you like it :-)

More seriously though, this is yet another chicken-and-egg problem…

In this particular case I think that the easiest / fastest way to get better 
deployment is to convince the browser manufactures to include support for DANE 
-- this will incentivize[0] folk to deploy records…

W

[0]: Whoohoo, "incentivize" !
> 
> My 2 cents,
> Dan
> 
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