Status Update, 2010-07-16

This is the twelfth of a series of technical status updates intended to inform a technical audience on progress in signing the root zone of the DNS.

RESOURCES

Details of the project, including documentation published to date, can be found at https://www.co.tt/files/dnssecroot/.

We’d like to hear from you. If you have feedback for us, please send it to rootsign@icann.org.

FULL PRODUCTION SIGNED ROOT ZONE

The transition from Deliberately-Unvalidatable Root Zone (DURZ) to production signed root zone took place on 2010-07-15 at 2050 UTC. The first full production signed root zone had SOA serial 2010071501. There have been no reported harmful effects. The root zone trust anchor can be found at https://data.iana.org/root-anchors/.

PLANNED DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULE

Already completed:

  • 2010-01-27: L starts to serve DURZ
  • 2010-02-10: A starts to serve DURZ
  • 2010-03-03: M, I start to serve DURZ
  • 2010-03-24: D, K, E start to serve DURZ
  • 2010-04-14: B, H, C, G, F start to serve DURZ
  • 2010-05-05: J start to serve DURZ
  • 2010-06-16: First Key Signing Key (KSK) Ceremony
  • 2010-07-12: Second Key Signing Key (KSK) Ceremony
  • 2010-07-15: Distribution of validatable, production, signed root zone; publication of root zone trust anchor

2 Responses to “Status Update, 2010-07-16”

  1. Belgacom DNS resolvers lack EDNS support :: The Next Net Says:

    [...] do not return RRSIG records and do no set the AD bit. This is very disappointing, given that the DNS root is now cryptographically signed and so are several top level domains [...]

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