Re: Does SOA expire for root matters?

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The BCP is for resolvers to AXFR the root zone and not query the roots for recursive resolution. There is no such BCP. There is a specification for how to this, but it does not have (IETF) BCP status, not least because providing downstream AXFR service to resolvers is not a formal part of the root server system's function.

and, as has been discussed a number of times, here there be dragons randy