On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Samuel Weiler wrote:

> However...the current draft does include those sDate/eDate parameters
> for telling a parent when to to first (and last) publish a DS.  From a
> security standpoint, they probably aren't strictly needed (it may
> depend on what you want the failure mode to be if the child doesn't
> contact its parent regularly: do you want the DS to keep getting
> resigned forever and always or just timeout?).  I assume there was
> some reason for them to be in the draft, so it's probably worth
> explicitly asking if that functionality desired by anyone.

Asking this in a different way:  what failure modes do we want to
enable for cases when a child does not regularly contact its parent?
Do we want to enable allowing the DS to timeout (be removed from the
zone), in which case sDate/eDate are probably needed?

-- Sam
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