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ICANN and NIST Announce Plans To Sign the DNS Root

Posted by timothy on from the no-more-absolute-value dept.

jhutkd writes "On June 3rd, 2009, ICANN and NIST announced formal plans to use DNSSEC to sign the DNS root zone by the end of 2009. This is a huge step forward for the deployment of DNSSEC."

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  1. ICANN? by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    ICANN haz DNSSEC?

  2. Re:Yeah, that'll help by spinkham · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thou shalt foreswear, renounce, and abjure the vile heresy which claimeth that "All the world's a Browser', and have no commerce with the benighted heathens who cling to this barbarous belief, that the days of thy network infrastructure may be long even though the days of thy current technology be short.

    Apologies to Henry Spencer.

    --
    Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups.
  3. Us! by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

    All your root are belong to us.

  4. Re:DNSCurve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi Dan,

    Sorry, I don't think it will work out.

    -Everyone