> The root zone always
> resigns, and on average 2x a day (sometimes 3-ish) and uses 14 day
> RRSIGs.

Operation of the root zone is outside control of the IETF, so the question
is whether the IETF should create standards that depend on how the root is
currently signed?

Another way of looking at this, suppose that at some point in time essentially
all recursors have a local root. The root gets signed on average twice a day so
all recursors download a copy of the root zone twice a day.

Then people operating the distribution network notice the huge waste of 
bandwidth transferring copies of the zone even though the is no real need to
do so. Somebody proposes to switch to incremental signing.

Unfortunately, the IETF only standardized full transfers of the root zone and
incremental signing would not help to reduce the amount of bandwidth required.


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