Mahesh Jethanandani has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-dnsop-ds-automation-08: No Objection

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Section 3, paragraph 0
>    The guidelines for deploying DS automation set out in this document
>    are meant to achieve more uniform treatment across suffixes —
>    minimizing user surprise and providing baseline safety and uniformity
>    of behavior.  They are also intended to prevent disruption of DNS and
>    DNSSEC functionality.  At a minimum, compliance with this RFC
>    requires support for both DNSSEC bootstrapping [RFC9615] and
>    subsequent updates [RFC7344], [RFC8078] under the implementation
>    guidance below.

The last sentence reads as a MUST-level compliance requirement but does
not use BCP 14 language. If it is intended as normative, it should say
"MUST support both…". If it is merely descriptive, the word "compliance"
should be removed or rephrased. As written, it is ambiguous.

Section 10, paragraph 0
>    This document considers security aspects throughout, and has no
>    separate considerations.

The document's subject matter — automated, authenticated modification
of DS records — has non-trivial threat surfaces that are dispersed
through the body of the document but never consolidated into a threat
model. At a minimum, the Security Considerations should address:

- Automated DS removal: Section 7 describes the conditions under which
  DS records are automatically deleted. The security implications —
  that a zone could be stripped of DNSSEC protection without the
  registrant's direct action — is not called out as a threat.

- Authentication compromise:  If an attacker gains control of child
  zone signing keys or nameservers, automated DS updates become an
  attack vector. The checks in Section 4.1 partially mitigate this,
  but the residual risk is not articulated.

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Section 7.2.2, paragraph 4
>  DS update has occurred. * An exception from this rule is when the entire DS
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you mean "exception to"?

Section 7.2.2, paragraph 14
> considerations. The document's subject matter — automated, authenticated mod
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This phrase is redundant. Consider using "subject" to avoid wordiness.



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