Roman Danyliw has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-dnsop-ds-automation-07: Abstain

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Thank you to Thomas Fossati for the GENART review.

# Summary

Thank you for the efforts of the WG in producing this draft and finding
consensus on the recommendations.  I am filing an ABSTAIN because it isn’t
clear to me how an entirely optional document can guide interoperability. 
Practically, any behavior is conformant according to recommendations in the
draft.

# Details

** Section 3
   Deployments of DS automation SHOULD follow the recommendations set
   out in this document, both to achieve a more uniform treatment across
   suffixes — minimizing user surprise — and to prevent disruption of
   DNS and DNSSEC functionality.  The recommendations are intended to
   provide baseline safety and uniformity of behavior across parents.

-- These recommendations will fail to provide “baseline safety or uniformity”
because there is no mandatory conformance specified in this document.  All
individual recommendations statements are “SHOULD (NOT)” or “(NOT)
RECOMMENDED”.  If there was any confusion, the first sentence reminds operators
that this entire document is not mandatory.  An operator can ignore these
thoughtful recommendations and be fully conformant to this BCP.

-- Given the interoperability is not being specified, it isn't clear why this
document isn't being published with informational status.

-- The editorial construction of this document relying on BCP14 language seems
like it would hamper future efforts by other RFCs or outside policy guidance to
make the recommendations (or subsets of them) mandatory since each
recommendation is framed as optional (not mandatory).



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