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<div>At 14:36 +0200 5/20/08, Florian Weimer wrote:</div>
<div>>With my spare-time vendor hat on, I wonder if future
transitions might<br>
>face similar issues. In that case, it might make sense to
provide a<br>
>signed, vendor-specific list of the current root servers, so that
they<br>
>can be changed automatically without a software upgrade (or
a</div>
<div>>configuration change).</div>
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<div>s/current root servers/current ICANN root servers/</div>
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<div>I don't mean to "support" alternate roots - but the
"global public Internet" isn't the only network using
DNS.</div>
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<div>Perhaps here is a time to plug IETF work that might apply
here.</div>
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<div>From
https://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/08mar/minutes/dnsop.txt:</div>
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<div>#5) Current & New
Topics <span
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> <span
></span> [ 16:05 {audio
0:59:23} ]<br>
#<br>
# o Design Team on<br>
# "Requirements for a Nameserver
Configuration and Control Protocol"<br>
#<br>
# Jaap gives a short overview:<br>
#<x-tab> </x-tab>4 IETFs ago - protocol proposal, going nowhere<br>
#<x-tab> </x-tab>2 IETFs ago - design team set up to produce wish
list<br>
#<x-tab> </x-tab>little happening now - unfinished, rough
document<br>
#<x-tab> </x-tab>No final conclusion
what to do, still working, but<br>
#<x-tab> </x-tab>slowly.<br>
# The lack of progress to
date does not indicate lack of interest.<br>
#<x-tab> </x-tab>Design team is
supposed to meet right after this dnsop session.<br>
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