RIPE NCC Confirms Commitment to DNSSEC Deployment in the Root Zone

Dear Colleagues,

On 1 December 2009, ICANN and VeriSign began to deploy DNSSEC across the 
root server system when they signed the root zone using DNSSEC. They 
noted that the signing would become public from January 2010, when the 
process of signing each of the 13 root servers in turn would begin. This 
process will continue until July 2010, when ICANN publishes the root 
zone trust anchor and root operators begin to serve the signed root zone 
with actual keys.

On 15 December 2009, the root zone DNSSEC deployment team launched a 
website that provides information about DNSSEC for the root zone:
http://www.root-dnssec.org/

The website is a repository for the documentation relating to the 
deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone, and it includes information such 
as technical status updates and the full timetable for the deployment of 
DNSSEC.

The RIPE NCC, operator of K-root, confirms its commitment to support the 
ICANN/VeriSign initiative and coordinate with the other root zone server 
operators in the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone.

The RIPE NCC also provides data collection and measurements that allows 
monitoring of the effects the transition has on the overall performance 
of the root server system. This information is available on RIPE Labs at:
http://labs.ripe.net/content/preparing-k-root-signed-root-zone

Further details on the RIPE NCC's operation of K-root are available at:
http://k.root-servers.org

Best regards,

Andrei Robachevsky
Chief Technical Officer
RIPE NCC