On Dec 7, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Montgomery, Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I was talking about when the systems designed to support the distribution
>> of authorization information (e.g., RP/RPKI or some DNS based system?)
>> were in steady state ... I.e., they have booted up and done their initial
>> data loads.
> 
> somewhere along the train my comment about dns got moved to 'just like
> dnssec' (which I was intentionally not referring to, maybe I should
> have used email as an example instead).  Then in this part of the
> messages I think my DNS comment got moved into 'if you distribute the
> rpki data via dns instead of up/down/left/right/a-b/a-b... the
> repository -> cache protocol'.  I didn't mean it in that sense either
> :(
> 
> I think somewhere 5-8 messages back Arturo's note that:
>  1) hosted model is just a crutch
>  2) hosted model isn't intended for everyone to use
>  3) most large ISP or large operations groups are expected to run their own CA

I totally agree, and I hope I was clear in ack'ing that this was something that 
I agreed with.

> coupled with eric's notes that:
>  1) hosted seems fragile for lots of operations
>  2) people should think long and hard about using the hosted model of
> controlling their own fate
> 
> gets the general gist of my point: "If you use the hosted model you
> are equivalently outsourcing your Mail/SMTP infrastructure to another
> person, be sure you want to do that..."

Yup.  Agreed.

Eric
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