At 22:19 +0100 9/8/09, Jim Reid wrote:
There will be plenty of time after there's a signed root to work on these things. Few TLDs are signed yet and few of them are signing delegations. There's only a small bunch of people who have switched on validation. So the impact of a dud TLD key or failed rollover isn't going to be a big deal. [Did the recent problem with .pr cause the sky to fall in?] At least not today. And maybe not for another year or two.
As a TLD operator engineer - the lack of a specified interface and OT&E is an impact to me now. For instance, I've already been asked "how are we going to make the public key public?"
It isn't a matter of getting a signed root OR having an interface and OT&E. It's a matter of solving what we can solve now. Not that anyone is just lying around, waiting for some politically based decree that will approve the signing of the root, but if they are, there are things we can work on.
More generally, we still have the issue of getting the SEP from one administration to another. This problem also hits between SLD's (TLD registrants) and TLDs. In the ICANN world - which I know is not every case - here's no direct link from DNS operator to the Registry and a protocol there would be nice to have. And that is something we can engineer now.
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