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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">McTim</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 4/22/07, Milton Mueller <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">
mueller@syr.edu</a>><br><snip><br>><br>><br>> So where do things stand now?<br>><br>> The root server issue (as IGP predicted at the last IGF) is now<br>> reinvented and renewed thanks to the prospect of DNSSEC implementation.
<br><br><br>It's only renewed in the minds of IGP stff me thinks!<br><br>> (See our serial blog at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org/" target="_blank">
http://blog.internetgovernance.org</a>)<br><br>Wishing doesn't make it so.</blockquote>
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<div>Dear McTim,</div>
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<div>To be honest, I was suprised to see someone who claims knowledge from allegedly participating in the "right" lists express such an opinion. One does not have to dig very deep in the relevant IETF Working Group lists (Namedroppers, DNSOPS, and other pre 2001 non-IETF lists) to find evidence that DNSSEC, and particularly control over signing the root, is intensely political and could continue to hold up deployment of the technology. In fact, one of the central actors in the technical community shaping the DNS (Paul Vixie) just said as much (
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.dnsext/10235/focus=10237" target="_blank">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.dnsext/10235/focus=10237</a>). </div>
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<div>So please, do this list a favor, and stop trying to discredit research on this issue. If you want to debate the issue please join it constructively - here, or on our blog <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org" target="_blank">
http://blog.internetgovernance.org</a>>, or at the upcoming symposium on Internet governance and security <<a href="http://internetgovernance.org/events.html#Symposium_051707">http://internetgovernance.org/events.html#Symposium_051707
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Brenden Kuerbis</div>
<div>Doctoral Student and IGP "staff" </div>
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