On 1/1/10 4:44 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: ...
it's going to be another game of chicken -- will the people who build and/or deploy such crapware lose their jobs, or will ICANN back down from DNSSEC?
Either (a) a large cohort of entries is added to the root before [pick predicate condition of choice, and signing the root is a common one] "foo", or (b) a number of smaller cohorts of entries are added to the root after [pick predicate condition of choice, and signing the root is a common one] "bar". Security and stability is the last shibboleth in ICANN rhetoric, offered frequently absurdly, e.g., [1], and is one of three fictions [2] which, together with the trademarks issue, constitute the "four overarching issues" which presently prevents the Draft Applicant Guidebook from being final, and therefore, from applications being submitted, and the evaluation system from being exercised under load. Should "ICANN back down from DNSSEC", the rational for not starting the application rat race would be reduced to trademarks [3]. ICANN appears to be avoiding that for all of 2010 and 2011. Should "ICANN [not] back down from DNSSEC", the least refutable (by the non-technical community) rational for delay remains controlling, at some cost to businesses that do not invest in issue advocacy at ICANN, and so do not matter in the slightest even if they "go dark". Eric [1] http://forum.icann.org/lists/draft-eoi-model/msg00000.html [2] The Four Overarching Issues are (1) Intellectual Property and Trademark Protection, (2) Economic Analysis, (3) Security and Stability and (4) Malicious Conduct. [3] OK, there is another biggie out there, the idiots at CRAI proposed that we junk the registry-registrar separation _and_ let every moron cereal and/or soap trademark portfolio manager suff their brands into the IANA root. The separation issue is really big, as it is a stalking horse for 15 U.S.C. § 1–7. The marks-in-the-root issue should give one pause, not for sizeof(footprint) reasons, but because it is unavoidable that strings in the IANA root will become private property, and because as a string generator, trademarks are an infinite string source.