At the moment the BRs say:

CAs are permitted to treat a record lookup failure as permission to issue if:

the failure is outside the CA's infrastructure;

the lookup has been retried at least once; and

the domain's zone does not have a DNSSEC validation chain to the ICANN root. 

I suggest replacing the last item with “the record being looked up is 
classified as ‘Insecure’ under RFC 4035 section 4.3, as amended.”

The most common case of this will be that the record being looked up is a CAA 
record for, say, example.com <http://example.com/>; the .com servers have been 
contacted successfully, producing authenticated NS records for example.com 
<http://example.com/>, but the example.com <http://example.com/> name servers 
cannot be contacted; and the .com servers have provided authenticated denial of 
existence for a DS record for example.com <http://example.com/>.  This is 
covered in RFC 4035 section 5.2, “If the validator authenticates an NSEC RRset 
that proves that no DS RRset is present for this zone, then there is no 
authentication path leading from the parent to the child."

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