[AfrICANN-discuss] DNSSEC Deployment in Root Zone of DNS Begins at ICANN

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

DNSSEC Deployment in Root Zone of DNS Begins at ICANN

27 January 2010

The collaboration between ICANN, the Commerce Department's National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and VeriSign, Inc.
to deploy DNSSEC in the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) passed an
important milestone today. DNSSEC information is now being served by L-Root,
one of the Internet's 13 root servers, operated by ICANN.

The DNS is vitally important to the proper operation of almost all services
on the Internet, and the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone is the
biggest structural improvement to the DNS to happen in twenty years. The
deployment of DNSSEC is proceeding with widespread involvement of the
Internet's technical community, and is being carefully staged so that any
unintended consequences of the deployment can be identified and mitigated
promptly.

ICANN engineers executed a maintenance procedure to introduce DNSSEC data
into L-Root between 1800-2000 UTC on 27 January 2010. The maintenance was
completed as planned. The reaction of the root server system as a whole to
the change is being closely monitored, with root server operators performing
extensive data collection to be analysed centrally. The data collection and
analysis is being coordinated by DNS-OARC, the Domain Name System Operations
Analysis and Research Center.

Other root server operators will execute similar maintenance procedures in
the coming months. Deployment of DNSSEC is proposed to be completed in July
2010.

For more information about the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone,
including details of how to contact the deployment team, please visit
http://www.root-dnssec.org/.
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