[WSIS CS-Plenary] [IGP Announce] Internet Governance Project Headlines

[Internet Governance Project]

October 03, 2008

ICANN's DNSSEC root signing proposal d.o.a.?

VeriSign's plan to sign the root

IGP Fellowships to Hyderabad awarded

IANA TAR: Pressure by ICANN to be independent?

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* ICANN's DNSSEC root signing proposal d.o.a.? - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36847225&f=175425&u=11399690
 
 

What is technical and what is political? Some of you may recall various members of the technical community scolding us about how implementation of DNSSEC at the root was a "purely technical issue" and that the world should ignore the governance questions and just "get on with it." This plea of urgency gained steam this summer during the Kaminsky attack episode, with some blaming the Department of Commerce as the "the show-stopper." What some technical experts failed to recognize was the underlying power struggle involving ICANN, the U.S. Commerce Department and VeriSign over the arcane business of how the root zone of the DNS might be signed, an important step in the implementation of DNSSEC. And more importantly, how the US Government is making sure this process unfolds in a way that keeps it in control of the root.

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* VeriSign's plan to sign the root - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36797615&f=175425&u=11399690
 
 

VeriSign has publicly released its proposal to sign the root, which it sent to the NTIA on September 22. Their proposal comes on the heels of ICANN submitting their own (yet to be publicly released) proposal to the NTIA on September 2. DoC will be putting out a Notice of Inquiry soon regarding signing the root to gather public comments. VeriSign adds a much needed dimension to the root signing debate, introducing a well known threshold cryptographic technique. But the proposal's reliance on root server operators needs to be considered carefully.

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* IGP Fellowships to Hyderabad awarded - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36817569&f=175425&u=11399690
 
 

The Internet Governance Project has awarded two fellowships to young scholars from Poland and China to enable them to attend the Hyderabad Internet Governance Forum and present their research at the 3rd annual Symposium of GigaNet (the Global Internet Governance Academic Network). Dr. Joanna Kulesza, of the University of Lodz Faculty of Law and Administration, will present a paper titled "Internet governance and the jurisdiction of states." Dr. Zhuo Zhang, of the Wuhan University School of Journalism and Communication, China, will present her paper (co-authored with Handong Wang): "Two Kinds of Violence: Internet Governance and Internet Mob in Mainland China."

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* IANA TAR: Pressure by ICANN to be independent? - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36755509&f=175425&u=11399690
 
 

Last June IGP reported on efforts to develop a trust anchor repository (TAR) to help bootstrap the deployment of DNSSEC. A TAR would provide a centralized location where top level registries could place public key information pertaining to their zone’s trust anchor. The key information could be accessed by secure resolvers to initiate the validation of signed zone data. The TAR idea had been floated by several actors in lieu of the difficulty of getting DNSSEC deployed at the root. It seems that the TAR concept continues to gain traction.

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