Re: [dssa] questions about provisioning and DNSSEC for the Root and IANA zones

[bmanning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:11:07PM -0600, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> 
> hi all (but most especially you people who know how the root and IANA zones 
> work),
> 
> i am wondering if somebody could fill the rest of us in on a couple 
> architecture-level questions.  we took a stab at these on the call today but 
> didn't have the right folks on the call to feel like we knew what we were 
> doing.  here are the questions;
> 
> Root zone -- are there automated provisioning systems for the root zone (a 
> parallel to the registry/registrar provisioning systems found at the TLD 
> level)?  do those provisioning systems differ between the various root zone 
> operators?
> 
> IANA zone -- is there an automated provisioning system for this zone?  is 
> there DNSSEC on this zone?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> mikey
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        there are automated systems for creating and distributing the root zone 
to the 
        operators.  each operator has its own systems for distributing the root 
zone to 
        the actual root servers.  Much of this is covered in the "Scaling the 
Root" study
        from 2009.

/bill