draft-ietf-dnsop-cds-consistency
Clarifications on CDS/CDNSKEY and CSYNC Consistency
Maintenance of DNS delegations requires occasional changes of the DS
and NS record sets on the parent side of the delegation. For the
case of DS records, "Automating DNSSEC Delegation Trust Maintenance"
(RFC 7344) provides automation by allowing the child to publish CDS
and/or CDNSKEY records holding the prospective DS parameters which
the parent can ingest. Similarly, "Child-to-Parent Synchronization
in DNS" (RFC 7477) specifies CSYNC records to indicate a desired
update of the delegation's NS (and glue) records. Parent-side
entities (e.g., Registries and Registrars) can query these records
from the child and, after validation, use them to update the parent-
side Resource Record Sets (RRsets) of the delegation.
This document specifies under which conditions the target states
expressed via CDS/CDNSKEY and CSYNC records are considered
"consistent". Parent-side entities accepting such records from the
child have to ensure that update requests retrieved from different
authoritative nameservers satisfy these consistency requirements
before taking any action based on them.
This document updates RFC 7344 and RFC 7477.