[Dnssec-deployment] GI signatures expired

Paul Hoffman paul.hoffman at vpnc.org
Mon Jan 3 16:53:46 EST 2011


On 1/3/11 1:43 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On 2011/01/03, at 14:22, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Chris' original message was about a signature that was already expired. Thus, it's not "naming and shaming" as much as a warning to resolver operators *and* a note about deployment issues.
>
> It's still generally considered polite to notify the SOA RNAME and allow the operator to make whatever public statement is necessary.

Of course.

> Regardless of the intent, public posting first looks like naming and shaming to many people, as is clear from the comments I've received off-list.

OK, I can certainly see that. A better way to do the education part 
might be send the alert to the SOA RNAME, and a separate message saying 
"I told the admin about it, but y'all should also know that ...".

--Paul Hoffman


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