[dnssec-deployment] New ICANN regime announced -- does it impact DNSSEC root deployment?

[McTim]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Thierry Moreau
<thierry.moreau at connotech.com> wrote:
> Thierry Moreau wrote:
>>
>> Dear DNSSEC experts,
>>
>> the new ICANN regime has been announced:
>>
>> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30sep09-en.htm
>> or
>> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/ICANN_Affirmation_090930.html
>>
>>
>> For the DNSSEC root deployment project, it is the IANA contract that
>> matters more. Unfortunately, the NTIA web site at
>> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/iana.htm is silent about the
>> Internet after today!
>>
>> Does anyone knows how to get reliable information from NTIA about the IANA
>> function tomorrow morning?
>>
>> I just find it strange that guesses (I guess the IANA contract is renewed
>> until September 30, 2010) or word-of-mouth (do you know anything about it?)
>> is the basis for the very Internet stability that NTIA touts.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> An update:
>
> NTIA has made public the IANA contract extension to September 30, 2010. The
> announcement itself has been back-dated from today or yesterday to last
> September 1st. No further comment.
> (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/iana.htm)

Was actually signed last week, but not announced.


>
> Still up to 30 months to go!

more like 8:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-59/presentations/uploads/presentations/Tuesday/Plenary%2014:00/Abley-DNSSEC_for_the_Root_Zone.mId7.pdf

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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