[106462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Federal Government Interest in your patch progress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Jul 29 09:46:42 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:46:29 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20080729120640.GA9429@laperouse.bortzmeyer.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:06:40 +0100
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:36:57PM -0400,
> Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote
> a message of 29 lines which said:
>
> > I've been talking to US Gov't folks, too. They really want DNSSEC
> > (and secure BGP...) deployed.
>
> Then, why ".gov" is not signed?
>
> Talk is cheap.
There's is in fact movement in that direction. See
http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/dnssec/ to start.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb