In light of the dnssec root key signing there is the issue of how to get this into default installs of operating systems. A number of programs that are DNSSEC aware will need access to the dnssec root key. I see this has the same problem that app-misc/ca-certificates solved and a net-dns/dnssec root package should be created to install the root key.
I'm thinking this should install into /etc/dnssec/ which would contain the root key in xml and a bind format (also used by unbound) along with the certs and keys required to verify this. (source http://data.iana.org/root-anchors/) Looking at what other distros are doing I have only found the debian bug ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=594911 ) which is solving it for one package rather than for all DNSSEC root key users. Looking at the ICANN proposals it seems this package will be updated every 2-5 years. Managing this as a distribution package will acheive a more consistant rollover when this occurs compared to relying on users to manage their own dnssec root download and operations. Am I going about this the right way or is there a better way? Daniel
