Dear DNS WG, the draft NTIA response has now been forwarded to the general RIPE discussion list <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/ripe-list/2008/msg00048.html> for endorsement. Find below the differences between version 1.8 last called here and version 1.9, which went to the list. The changes clarify the originating entity and add a reference to RIPE's previous effort w.r.t. signing the root. -Peter Koch [for the DNS WG co-chairs] --- version1.8 2008-11-14 19:34:14.000000000 +0100 +++ version1.9 2008-11-14 09:40:15.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ # -# $Id: ntia-draft,v 1.8 2008/11/09 17:28:20 jim Exp $ +# $Id: ntia-draft,v 1.9 2008/11/13 20:20:41 jim Exp $ # -The RIPE community (or DNS WG?) thanks the NTIA for its consultation -on proposals to sign the root and is pleased to offer the following -response to that consultation. We urge the adoption of a solution that -leads to the prompt introduction of a signed root zone. Our community -considers the introduction of a signed root zone to be an essential -enabling step towards widespread deployment of Secure DNS, DNSSEC. +The RIPE community thanks the NTIA for its consultation on proposals +to sign the root and is pleased to offer the following response to +that consultation. We urge the adoption of a solution that leads to +the prompt introduction of a signed root zone. Our community considers +the introduction of a signed root zone to be an essential enabling +step towards widespread deployment of Secure DNS, DNSSEC. This view +is supported by the letter from the RIPE community to ICANN as an +outcome of discussions at the May 2007 RIPE meeting in Tallinn: +http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/icann-root-signing.pdf. It is to be expected that a community as diverse as RIPE cannot have a -unified set of detailed answers to the NTIA questionnaire. However -several -members of the RIPE community will be individually responding to that -questionnaire. We present the following statement as the consensus -view of our community (or the DNS Working Group?) about the principles -that should form the basis of the introduction of a signed DNS root. +unified set of detailed answers to the NTIA questionnaire. However +several members of the RIPE community will be individually responding +to that questionnaire. We present the following statement as the +consensus view of our community about the principles that should form +the basis of the introduction of a signed DNS root. 1. Secure DNS, DNSSEC, is about data authenticity and integrity and not about control.