Colleagues, the NTIA (the bit of DoC which oversees changes to the root zone) has just announced a consultation on the deployment of DNSSEC. I quote: "Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking public comments regarding the deployment of Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) into the Internet’s DNS infrastructure, including the authoritative root zone. " Further details are at: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2008/DNSSEC_081009.html . Perhaps the WG would like to formulate a response to this consultation? I would also like the WG to give an indication if we should allocate some time at RIPE57 to discuss this consultation and any possible response to it.