On 15 Dec 2017, at 11:24, Matt Larson <[email protected]> wrote:

>> On Dec 15, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> In practical terms anybody who has a non-root trust anchor installed has a 
>> bidirectional operational relationship with the people who publish it. 
>> Synchronising that trust anchor, with the glorious benefit of a full list of 
>> relying parties and knowledge of how to interact with them, is a far cry 
>> from the situation we find ourselves in with the root zone.
> 
> I'm not convinced that even in the scenario you describe the trust anchor 
> publisher could really count on knowing all the relying parties. And even if 
> they did, a mechanism to give visibility would still be desirable, even in 
> that controlled situation.

That seems fair. I was definitely speaking from a set of personal assumptions 
without any data; it's certainly possible that non-root trust anchors are 
widely deployed, however much I haven't seen it.


Joe

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