Despite not being one of the authors, I am also in favor of adoption.

> On 5 Dec 2025, at 14:17, Johan Stenstam 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Subject: Call for adoption: draft-johani-dnsop-delegation-mgmt-via-ddns-06 
>> (Ends 2025-12-18)
>> 
>> This message starts a 2-week Call for Adoption for this document.
>> 
>> Abstract:
>>  Delegation information (i.e. the NS RRset, possible glue, possible DS
>>  records) should always be kept in sync between child zone and parent
>>  zone.  However, in practice that is not always the case.
>> 
>>  When the delegation information is not in sync the child zone is
>>  usually working fine, but without the amount of redundancy that the
>>  zone owner likely expects to have.  Hence, should any further
>>  problems ensue it could have catastropic consequences.
>> 
>>  The DNS name space has lived with this problem for decades and it
>>  never goes away.  Or, rather, it will never go away until a fully
>>  automated mechanism for how to keep the information in sync
>>  automatically is deployed.
> 
> Yes please.
> 
> It should not surprise anyone that I, being one of the authors, am strongly 
> in favor of adoption of this draft.
> 
> Among the reasons:
> 
> * I am not aware of *any* other proposal that would provide automatic 
> synchronization of delegation information for *any* child zone, signed or 
> unsigned. That by itself makes this highly relevant.
> 
> * While the DNS protocol has supported the suggested mechanism for 20 years 
> it has not previously been of general practical use (primarily not knowing 
> where the child should send the update and specifically not sending the 
> update directly to a parent nameserver). Both of these problems are solved by 
> the DSYNC record (RFC 9859).
> 
> * Other advances in recent years have led to multiple standardized methods 
> for automatic bootstrapping of DNSSEC-signed delegations (RFC 8078 and RFC 
> 9615).
> 
> It is almost like we have a small jigsaw puzzle of the three things that I 
> list above and when you look at the puzzle there is one, single, piece 
> missing and it is shaped like:
> 
>       “automatic synchronization of delegation information via DDNS, using 
> keys automatically         bootstrapped a la RFC 8078/9615 and the signed 
> update sent to the designated parent side    
>        receiver as announced a la RFC 9859”.
> 
> And that’s the missing piece that this draft aims to fill.
> 
> Regards,
> Johan Stenstam
> 
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