On May 29, 2012, at 4:02 AM, paul vixie wrote: >>> i can tell more than that. rover is a system that only works at all >>> when everything everywhere is working well, and when changes always >>> come in perfect time-order, >> Exactly like DNSSEC. > > no. dnssec for a response only needs that response's delegation and > signing path to work, not "everything everywhere".
My impression was that ROVER does not need "everything, everywhere" to work to fetch the routing information for a particular prefix -- it merely needs sufficient routing information to follow the delegation and signing path for the prefix it is looking up. However, I'll admit I haven't looked into this in any particular depth so I'm probably wrong. Regards, -drc