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New IAB Chair Defends DNSSEC

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the chickens-and-eggs dept.

bednarz writes "Olaf Kolkman, the new chair of the Internet Architecture Board, says that DNSSEC — an approach to authenticating DNS traffic that has been slow to take off — is not a failure. 'It is taking a while to percolate into software, and for that software to percolate into the market, and for people to adapt their environments to deploy and operate DNSSEC. The deployment is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem'."

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  1. So let me get this straight... by X-treme-LLama · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Development and implementation, has been slow or nonexistent across the board.. But that doesn't mean it is a failure..

    No, ok, I'll grant him that.. But sometimes no matter how useful (or perhaps good) an idea is, it just doesn't happen. Sorry mate..

    In the interview he says that it's a bit of a "chicken and the egg" problem, yet while he lists a few minor adopters who have it somewhat deployed, he has no concrete solution to the problem..

    Any type of dns security, or verification is certainly interesting, and probably beneficial, but DNS is 25-30 years old, and still works, there just isn't a compelling reason to augment it for most people who deal with keeping DNS servers running...

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    1. Re:So let me get this straight... by Workaphobia · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why push solutions no one wants? Because they're good solutions to worthy problems. Because they're better than what we have. Because to not push them would offend technological common sense. If no one wants them then that doesn't mean they are inferior solutions; it could just as easily mean that people do not understand the problem.

      I believe there was a quote by a president who commented on the telephone, that went along the lines of, "It's a marvelous invention, but who would ever want one?"

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  2. Re:what do spam and porn have in common? by plague3106 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, spam is not a freedom of speech issue. For example, no one's freedom of speech permits them to fill up the HR guy's email box to the point where it is almost unusable. The mailbox exists for the purpose of business communications.

    Freedom of speech does not permit you to litter your neighbors house with leaflets, not matter what they say.

    I don't think people are going to far in battling spam; we recently switched to a new mail server, which has spam filtering built in using several filters, and our HR person is very grateful. Now instead of 300 spam emails, and 3 legit ones, he only has the three legit ones, and possibly a few spam.

    On the other hand, no one is being forced to look at a porn site. Anyone that wants to see it can, and anyone that doesn't go browsing for it.