[p2p-research] Internet Society Applauds Key Milestone in Domain Name Security Technology

[Michel Bauwens]

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Internet Society Applauds Key Milestone in Domain Name Security Technology

The Internet Society welcomes the significant milestone recently reached in
implementing DNS

SEC at the highest level of the Domain Name System (DNS), and applauds the
efforts by ICANN, Verisign, and the U.S. Department of Commerce that made it
possible.

Leslie Daigle, chief Internet technical officer for the Internet Society,
said, "We're excited to see this capstone element of DNSSEC deployment put
in place. It signals a new era for operational security of the Internet, and
we look forward to new levels of user confidence in network activities using
DNSSEC and the services built out from it."

DNSSEC allows users to have more confidence in the online activities that
are increasingly becoming a part of our lives at work, home, and school by
acting like tamper-proof packaging for domain name data. For example, it
ensures that a website name typed into a browser delivers the intended
server IP address. DNSSEC also provides a platform for future innovations to
further enhance user confidence in Internet-based services.

DNSSEC technology used today is the result of careful protocol engineering
and standardisation within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the
premier Internet standards body in the world; implementation by various DNS
vendors; and operational trials by DNS operators.

Through the efforts of the Public Interest Registry, the entire .ORG
top-level domain recently became the first top-level generic domain to
implement DNSSEC. ). The Internet Society was among the first organisations
in the .ORG top level domain to deploy DNSSEC for its ISOC.org and
InternetSociety.org domains. DNSSEC is also currently implemented by several
country-specific top-level domains: Brazil (.br), Bulgaria (.bg), Czech
Republic (.cz), Puerto Rico (.pr), and Sweden (.se).



Anya Chambers, Global Outreach
Internet Society

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