(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an important milestone, the three organizations spanning business, government and non-profit sectors have enabled DNSSEC information to now be served by L-Root, one of the Internet’s 13 root servers, operated by ICANN.
According to the announcement this week, ICANN (www.icann.org) collaborated with the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (www.ntia.doc.gov) and VeriSign, Inc. (www.verisign.com) in an effort to bolster the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone of the Domain Name System, which is vitally important to the proper operation of almost all services on the Internet.
DNSSEC deployment in the root zone is the biggest structural improvement to the DNS to happen in two decades according to ICANN. The Internet’s technical community has been widely involved in the rollout of DNSSEC to make sure that any unintended consequences of the deployment can be identified and mitigated promptly.
ICANN engineers executed a maintenance procedure to introduce DNSSEC data into L-Root between 1800-2000 UTC on Wednesday. The maintenance was completed as planned. The reaction of the root server system as a whole to the change is being closely monitored, with root server operators performing extensive data collection and analysis coordinated by DNS-OARC, the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center.
Other root server operators will execute similar maintenance procedures in the coming months. Deployment of DNSSEC is proposed to be completed in July 2010.
