You have of course read RFC 2826, "IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS
Root"?
Of course, this is specifically about the DNS, and doesn't answer your
question as it pertains to non-DNS systems....
--On fredag, juli 22, 2005 07:31:48 -0400 Francois Menard
<francois(_at_)menards(_dot_)ca> wrote:
IETF-ers,
What is the latest state-of-the-art thinking at the IETF about a
distributed multiple-root systems for name discovery based on end-to-end
peer-to-peer PKI-based trust discovery and trust chain management &
properties/capabilities exchange (I can sign you, you can sign me, I can
do 4096 bits but you'll only parse 2048, etc.)
Is it permissible to think that this could be an alternative to the DNS
at some point in time in the future or does the DNS needs to remain as it
is?
I am thinking on figthing on the policy front to force a Tier1C
implementation of ENUM with a distributed registry based on the use of
registries at the NPA-NXX-XXXX (Co-code) level in Canada while the USA
would remain with a flat file per NPA (Tier 1B)
However, there is more generality to my question ... I need a quick
rundown of the latest thinking (RFCs, ID's, IESG & IAB directives, IRTF
experiments) regarding:
1) distributed multiple roots
2) E2E P2P PKI-based trust discovery and trust chain management
3) capabilities and properties exchange in an E2E PKI environment.
You can tell me to RTFM with reason since I have been out of touch for
the last 5 years, and I will not take it personally, but any investment
of time and energy into providing me some good warnings of "DO NOT GO
THERE" would be very appreciated.
-=Francois=-
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