The main task here is the authentic distribution of the new root CA certificate as new trust anchor to all the PKI participants (e.g. the users).

In some of the rollover-scenarios there is no automatic way, often explicit assignment of trust from each user is needed, which could be very costly.

Other methods make use of the old root CA certificate for automatic trust establishment (see PKIX-reference), but these solutions works only well for scenarios with currently valid root CA certificates (and not for emergency cases e.g. compromise of the current root CA certificate).

The rollover of the root CA certificate is a specific and delicate problem and therefore are often ignored during PKI deployment.