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Submission + - .edu announces plans to sign with DNSSEC (ucla.edu)

jhutkd writes: "Educause (who run the .edu gTLD) announced today that they will deploy DNSSEC and sign the .edu zone by the end of March 2010.

This will enable all educational institutions to benefit from deploying DNSSEC via the secure delegation hierarchy starting with IANA's ITAR (a temporary surrogate for the root zone signing), going through .edu, down to schools, and potentially leading all the way down to individual departments! Unlike larger gTLDs like .org, the churn of adding new and deleting old zones in .edu is much lower (due to the fact that there are tight controls on who may register for a delegation). Thus, many of the hassles of adding new DS records and maintenance procedures might be more manageable and help speed DNSSEC's rollout in this branch of the DNS hierarchy!"

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Submission + - ICANN and NIST Announce Plans to Sign the DNS Root (icann.org)

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. Details are available at:

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-03jun09-en.htm

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http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/dnssec_060309.html"

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