Government Begins Securing Root Zone File

Death Metal notes a Wired piece on the US government beginning the process of securing the root zone file. This is in service of implementing DNSSEC, without which the DNS security hole found by Dan Kaminsky can't be definitively closed. On Thursday morning, a comment period will open on the various proposals on who should hold the keys and sign the root — ICANN, Verisign, or the US government's NTIA.

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Cant Do it.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Wall street has already sold 22 trillion dollars worth of Root Zone Default Swaps. If Govt took control of the root zone file without buying those toxic assets the whole solar system will collapse into a black hole. We need to urgently pass legislation to tax US Tax payers to the extent of 22 trillion dollars and find a young private sector vice president and appoint him to manage the distribution of the goodies without any possible legislative, judicial or administrative review or oversight.