From:	IAB Chair 
Sent:	Thursday, July 01, 2010 5:57 PM
To:	DNSSEC
Cc:	IAB IAB
Subject:	DNSSEC deployment for the Root Zone [Docket No. 100603240–0240–01]



Fiona Alexander,
Associate Administrator, Office of International Affairs, National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration US Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room 4701 Washington, DC 20230


Dear Fiona Alexander,

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) supports the next steps in signing the 
root being taken at the anticipated completion date.

We observe that the NTIA was involved in the details of setting technical 
requirements and in organizing the technical review process. Without making 
any qualitative statements about that process, we believe this to be a project 
where the use of an open collaborative forum would have been more appropriate.  
We understand that in the absence of such a forum, a Notice of Inquiry process 
is being used to collect feedback; however, we would encourage the Department 
to use mechanisms that can allow full engagement of the Internet technical 
community for technical evaluations in future.

In that context we would want to refer to earlier correspondence with ICANN 
(http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence/2009-10-14-ICANN-Scaling-the-
Root.html) where we argued for the development of an appropriate structure to 
review technical issues with respect to root-zone operations (ad distinct from 
root-zone content) such as the details of DNSSEC deployment and the scaling 
issues that were the subject of the earlier correspondence.

We also believe that the current procedures and requirements should be subject 
to evolution based on experience and community feedback.

So, while we hope that the organizational model under which this project has 
succeeded will not set precedent for the future, we are extremely happy that 
the root is signed and want to see the deployment completed by the publication 
of the Key Signing Key.


For the IAB,
 Olaf Kolkman 
 IAB Chair


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