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RFC 7958
DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone,August 2016
- File formats:
- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 9718
- Authors:
- J. Abley
J. Schlyter
G. Bailey
P. Hoffman - Stream:
- INDEPENDENT
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7958
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Abstract
The root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) has beencryptographically signed using DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
In order to obtain secure answers from the root zone of the DNS usingDNSSEC, a client must configure a suitable trust anchor. Thisdocument describes the format and publication mechanisms IANA hasused to distribute the DNSSEC trust anchors.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.