Protocol lists split on DNSSEC, moderation, and adoption calls

IETF lists spent the day on contested design changes and working-group adoption calls, led by a DNSSEC proposal meant to ease post-quantum signatures. Routing, RPKI, and attestation threads also drew implementer and author pushback.

DNS experts split over a DO-bit limit for post-quantum DNSSEC

A draft in the DNS Operations working group proposes using the DO bit only for validating resolvers, to ease post-quantum DNSSEC. Multiple DNS experts oppose the idea and favor migrating toward TCP or QUIC instead. The dispute ran to 17 messages among 12 participants.

Moderator team seeks comment on procedures under RFC 9945

The IETF Moderator Team asked the community for input on draft procedures that implement the moderation rules in RFC 9945. Discussion on the mod-discuss list drew 84 messages from 22 participants.

MPLS adoption call debates RSVP-TE and adjacency SID reuse

The MPLS working group opened a call for adoption of draft-beeram-mpls-rsvp-sr-01, ending 2026-11-17. Fifty-one messages from 23 participants debate reusing segment-routing adjacency SIDs with RSVP-TE and related coexistence issues.

Agent capacity draft sparks a fight over a late agenda slot

An individual draft, PACE, proposes capacity management for agents under shared-fate anonymity on the web-bot-auth list. The thread turned heated over a late request for an IETF 127 agenda slot, with 12 messages from eight participants.

CFRG asked to review claims against early-attestation bindings

Paper authors asked the Crypto Forum Research Group to review a formal analysis that claims weaknesses in SEAT early-attestation cryptographic bindings. Draft authors dispute the model's accuracy and accuse some replies of being AI-generated. The exchange was heated: 14 messages from five participants.

RPKI-to-router over QUIC meets server implementer opposition

The Sidrops working group called for adoption of draft-liu-sidrops-rpki-rtr-over-quic-04, ending 2026-11-12. Major server implementers said they would not support the protocol. The call drew 28 messages from 23 participants.

Restore-code errata feed work on an RFC 3915 revision

The regext list discussed errata 9269 on the RFC 3915 restore response code example, and how one-step versus two-step RGP restore signaling should be handled in rfc3915bis. Twelve messages from six participants.

IDR weighs a small FlowSpec redirect invalidation bit

The IDR working group held an adoption call, from 2026-10-22 to 2026-11-05, for draft-li-idr-flowspec-redirect-direct-ip-00. The draft is a minor FlowSpec redirect-IP change that adds a D-bit so redirects can be invalidated on link failure. Twenty-two messages from 14 participants.