Re: draft-ietf-dnsext-keyrr-key-signing-flag-04.txt

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> If I remember the discussions that brought the KSK draft out:  It was never
> meant to be a protocol relevant bit, but a administrator/human readable bit.
> The problem found during the workshops was the inability to distinguish
> between keys just by their fingerprint.  So a bit was proposed to signify
> which KEY RR held the KEY signing key.

exactly

> A conscious decision was made to make this a "human readable only" bit in
> the flags and not assign any protocol value to it.

thank you

randy


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