[dns-operations] cool idea regarding root zone inviolability

[Matthew Pounsett]

On Nov 29, 2014, at 17:57 , Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:

> here, i'm specifically thinking of zones so large that touching every byte of their content is a multiple-minutes cost.

Those zones are relatively rare though, and reading a randomly-written mmaped file isn’t a common name server implementation.  That seems to me to be optimizing for an edge case at the expense of the common case.  Zones which fall into that rather narrow edge case can simply not use this proposed signature.