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RFC 6781: DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2

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This document describes a set of practices for operating the DNS with security extensions (DNSSEC). The target audience is zone administrators deploying DNSSEC. The document discusses operational aspects of using keys and signatures in the DNS. It discusses issues of key generation, key storage, signature generation, key rollover, and related policies. This document obsoletes RFC 4641, as it covers more operational ground and gives more up-to-date requirements with respect to key sizes and the DNSSEC operations.

Document record

Document ID
RFC6781
Published
December 2012
Authors
O. Kolkman; W. Mekking; R. Gieben
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
ops
Pages
71
Also known as
—
Obsoletes:
RFC 4641

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 2541 (1999)
  2. RFC 4641 (2006)
  3. RFC 6781 (2012)

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