Libor Peltan <[email protected]> wrote:
    > And yes, the root zone signing process should be modernized to be able
    > to sign incrementally, in any case. But that's not critical.

What matters is that we don't design LocalRoot in a way that makes such a
change hard :-)

    > As an alternative, I have also thought that as root zone is signed with
    > NSECs, the resolvers actually can fill their cache by simply iterating
    > the zone with normal queries :) But then I thought, that simply
    > enabling aggresive negative caching is more efficient.

    > Anyway, what are the main benefits of local root against negative
    > caching?

a. When the root nameservers are under DDoS, you don't care.
b. if some significant (90%+)  of the resolvers that matter are doing
   LocalRoot, then root name server operators can more aggressively deal with 
DDoS.

    > I concur to the caution that transferring zone files over HTTP(S) looks
    > weird and care must be taken not to fall to some circular dependency
    > (HTTPS TLS certificate requiring working DNS?). But one argment for
    > this is that it is already implemented and running.

The zone could even be broadcast via geo-satellite :-)

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