[dns-operations] Who's sleeping well tonight and who's not?

[Matt Larson]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Chris Thompson wrote:
> On Jul 15 2010, Olaf Kolkman wrote:
> 
> >
> >On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Edward Lewis wrote:
> >
> >>From http://dns.icann.org/:
> >>
> >>DNSSEC COUNTDOWN DNSSEC Signed ROOT goes production:
> >>
> >>in 17 hours, 5 minutes, 4 seconds
> >>in 17 hours, 5 minutes, 3 seconds
> >>in 17 hours, 5 minutes, 2 seconds
> >>in 17 hours, 5 minutes, 1 seconds
> >>in 17 hours, 5 minutes
> >
> >Is it guaranteed that at t=0 all (any-cast) instances of the root
> >will serve the signed root?
> 
> I doubt it. It's saying 5 hours 11 minutes for me at the moment which
> suggests it is counting down to 1700 UTC. But
> 
> http://www.root-dnssec.org/2010/07/14/status-update-2010-07-14/
> 
> says "The transition [...] is scheduled take place on 2010-07-15
> within a maintenance window which begins at 1930 UTC and ends
> at 2330 UTC".

Right.  The clock is presumably for dramatic effect, but the published
maintenance window is when we intend to make the change.  Rest
assured, we'll let everyone know when it's done, if you all don't
notice first.  :-)

Matt