Re: DNSSEC & the .EDU domain

["David L. Wasley" <dlwasley () EARTHLINK NET>]

So, Rodney, the question is: what's the most effective way to put
some momentum behind this?  Conversations and working groups are all
fine and good but who has the ability to actually "make it so"?

        David

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At 8:00 PM -0600 on 8/17/08, Rodney Petersen wrote:

> This is under active consideration by the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security
> Task Force.  As someone else has commented, we have a working group
> established under the banner of the Internet2 Salsa group.
> Additionally, EDUCAUSE, as the administrator of the dot edu domain, is
> in active conversation with Verasign who provides our technical support.
> Additionally, there are a few initiatives within government and industry
> to move this forward and we are participating in those dialogues as
> well.
>
> You will find some excellent materials from a February 2008 presentation
> on "DNSSEC:  Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education" at
> http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/DNSSECChallengesandOpport/4
> 6213.
>
> Please let me know if you have any further questions.
>
> -Rodney
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of John Center
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:29 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] DNSSEC & the .EDU domain
>
> Hi,
>
> Has there been any discussion on signing the .EDU domain?  I see that
> PIR is planning to sign .ORG.  This might be a good time to do it... :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
>         -John
>
> --
> John Center
> Villanova University