Archive for March, 2010
.uk now DNSSEC signed
Posted by Denise Graveline in Uncategorized on March 8, 2010
In this post on Twitter, Nominet IT director Simon McCalla announces that .uk is now signed.
Updated program on DNSSEC at FOSE
Posted by Denise Graveline in Uncategorized on March 5, 2010
We’ve updated the program for the daylong session “What’s Next in DNSSEC” at the FOSE conference and expo, coming up later in March. Go here to see the current roster of speakers and topics on DNSSEC deployment in the federal government, state government, public-private systems, commercial networks and more.
Whither DNSCurve? Vixie answers.
Posted by Denise Graveline in Uncategorized on March 5, 2010
Over at the Internet Systems Consortium blog, Paul Vixie has offered this post, Whither DNSCurve? to answer the question he frequently gets: “what is DNSCurve and what’s ISC’s position on it given our long involvement in DNSSEC?” He concludes with this summation:
I want provably correct DNS content to be universally available. Not just for me but for the entire population of the Internet. I want to stamp out all forms of DNS intermediation whether by recursive nameserver operators or nation-states or hackers. Because DNSSEC can do this, ISC has invested a lot of time and money over the last dozen years helping to develop DNSSEC. Because DNSCurve does not do this, and because the problems DNSCurve actually does solve are pretty well solved by UDP source port randomization and will be entirely eradicated by DNSSEC, ISC is not investing in DNSCurve at all.
HOMEGATE workshop set for April 20-21 in London
Posted by Denise Graveline in Uncategorized on March 2, 2010
HOMEGATE, the Broadband Home Gateway birds-of-a-feather group (BoF) formed at the 76th IETF meeting, will hold a workshop in London April 20-21, and is asking would-be participants to indicate their likely attendance here so that arrangements can be made for a venue. Remote options for participating are promised, so the early RSVP applies to those intending to attend in person.
The group focuses on access to broadband Internet services, which use networking technology in the home, small office/home office (SOHO) or small to medium business (SMB). The group’s draft charter has been focused and coordinated with other Standards Development Organizations “to ensure that the planned work is complimentary and not overlapping with their respective work.”
The effort’s wiki notes:
….many serious, long-term problems face users of home gateways today. At the root of many of these problems is the fact that device manufacturers, and/or the organizations that specify requirements for such devices, are not certain which IETF standards and best current practices should be supported, and when/why that support is needed. As a result of this, millions of devices are being deployed every year, which do not work with important IETF protocols, standards, and best practices that are central to the future of the Internet.
DNSSEC is among the IETF standards to be included in the group’s deliberations. Sign up here for the group’s mailing list for further announcements.
Signing of .uk begins
Posted by Denise Graveline in Uncategorized on March 1, 2010
Nominet has begun signing the .uk country code top-level domain this week, a process expected to conclude March 8. According to the article in PC Advisor, “Nominet will begin signing ‘.co.uk’ – comprising more than 8 million websites – later this year, working with any entity that operates a nameserver, as their software will have to be upgraded for DNSSEC.”
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