[dns-operations] VeriSign becoming Root-DNSSEC key manager!?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:03:39PM +0100,
 B C <brettlists at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 44 lines which said:

> Well I was at RIPE58 and I don't recall any announcement about
> Verisign holding the Keys for root. As far as I am aware the NTIA has
> gone very quiet since it's consultation and I haven't heard much from
> IANA/ICANN either.
> 
> Sounds like a journalist getting the wrong end of the stick to me :)

This information was perfectly correct, as usual with Monika Ermert.

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-03jun09-en.htm
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/dnssec_060309.html