On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
>   For a forward zone that I owned, I would push a new DS record upwards.
>   The likely reason for a new CPE is that the blue smoke got out of the old
>   one.  If the models were compatible, and I had a backup of the config,
>   then perhaps the private key would move, but that seems doubtful for most
>   users.

How are you going to push DS records upwards if you have lost your key?

> 3) the perpass/National-Security-Letter situation.
>   If the key by default resides at the ISP, then it is the ISP that gets
>   served when some agency thinks it wants to divert traffic by changing DNS,
>   and once served, the net may may be much larger than desired.
>   By putting the key in the CPE, the legal papers will have to specify that
>   device.  It may still be the ISP legal department that responds, but the
>   chance of screwing up is larger.

This is probably the best argument I've heard against putting the keys on the 
ISP's server.   However, you still have to make it work.

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