BCP doesn’t require vendors to change code to bring themselves into compliance. 
 Updating the specifications in theory does.
-- 
Mark Andrews

> On 2 Oct 2025, at 17:46, Philip Homburg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Uhmmmm ?  The world isnt that black and white. Additionally, flag
>> days are bad as it turns production quality and certified solutions
>> into old crap on a single unfortunate day in the future these
>> deployments have no reason to monitor or track now.
> 
>> It is as no one remembered these discussions we had a number of
>> times now. Environments with KSK and ZSK split might find it hard
>> to guarantee this - even if they could, it inserts a human component
>> in a protocol flow where no human is needed now. And the reason
>> for doing so have not convinced many people on this list.
>> 
>> There is no consensus and it is time to drop this idea.
> 
> I agree that flag days are bad. However, I think a BCP that says:
> "a DNSSEC signer MUST NOT sign a DNSSEC RRset that contains key tag 
> collisions"
> would be a good step forward. We can see if we can figure out if we can or
> should say something about temporal collisions.
> 
> At home, I sign some of my domains with shell scripts around ldns-signzone.
> Those shell scripts do not avoid collisions. There is no easy way to avoid
> collisions and I suspect something will go terribly wrong when a collision
> occurs. However, I don't consider those scripts properly engineered.
> 
> If there are signers that cannot avoid collisions then it is time to rethink
> those signers.
> 
> It is not a reason to break them at some flag day, but certainly a reason
> to either fix to signers or move away from them.
> 
> 
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