IETF committee calls for a simple system for DNS security
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the central committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF, a standards organisation), is calling for a simple system for signing the DNS root zone, and for the interest groups of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to be given a say in a number of operational questions. That would give the ICANN community an influence on, say, the continuous rollover of keys for signing the root zone. The IAB makes these requests in its feedback to a Notice of Inquiry from the US National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA). It also calls for caution: “Care should be taken that DNSSEC deployment remains about data, integrity, and authenticity, and not about control.”
