[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The K-root server, operated by the RIPE NCC, is now serving the signed root zone as part of a staged global deployment of DNSSEC across the root zone system. Starting with L-root in January 2010, the root servers began serving the signed root zone in batches in the form of a Deliberately Unvalidatable Root Zone (DURZ). This roll out period is scheduled to end in May 2010 and ICANN is scheduled to sign the root zone with real keys and release the trust anchor after 1 July 2010. For more information, please see: http://www.ripe.net/news/k-root-signed-dnssec.html If you have any questions about this, please don't hesitate to contact <dns-help@ripe.net>. Regards, Anand Buddhdev, DNS Services Manager, RIPE NCC