[dns-operations] Historical reminiscences (was Re: nsec vs nsec3 use)

[Peter Koch]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:33:53PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> TLD, which seemed like a pretty bad barrier.  Then (a) certain large
> delegation-centric zone operator(s) from Europe (it's now kind of
> ironic which the leader was) got a legal opinion that the GDPR would
> raise problems for them due to zone walking[1], and so something else
> had to be created. [...]

it is interesting how deep GDPR is now in everbody's mind, but back then
the EU had a Directive that was implemented by member states in subtly
(or not so) different ways, so the opinions could, much more legitimately
than today, well differ.

NSEC3 was also inspired by the proposal of the "NO RR" that dates back
to at least as early as the year 2000.

-Peter