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Re: route policy (Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Aug 14 12:53:13 2008

From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200808141338.OAA11603@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:52:55 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Hi,

On Aug 14, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/experts-accuse.html
>
> "The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -- which coordinates the
> internet -- has been prototyping a system to sign the root-zone file
> for the last year, but they can't do the same for the internet's top
> servers without approval from the Department of Commerce"
>
> Sounds like some work that could be recycled (and save being wasted
> if it's decided to have Verisign do the dnssec instead)

Just to be clear, the stuff at https://ns.iana.org/dnssec/status.html  
will be used for more than the root, e.g., .ARPA, children of .ARPA,  
IANA.ORG, etc., regardless of who ends up signing the root.

Regards,
-drc



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