{"draft":"draft-jabley-dnssec-trust-anchor-16","doc_id":"RFC7958","title":"DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone","authors":["J. Abley","J. Schlyter","G. Bailey","P. Hoffman"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"14","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"INDEPENDENT","abstract":"The root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) has been\r\ncryptographically signed using DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC).\r\n\r\nIn order to obtain secure answers from the root zone of the DNS using\r\nDNSSEC, a client must configure a suitable trust anchor.  This\r\ndocument describes the format and publication mechanisms IANA has\r\nused to distribute the DNSSEC trust anchors.","pub_date":"August 2016","keywords":["DNS","ICANN","IANA","KSK"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7958","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc7958"}