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

[Kim Davies]

Hi,

On 5/22/09 1:03 PM, "B C" <brettlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

On the last part, NTIA wrote ICANN a letter in September instructing that it
"does not authorize ICANN to engage in public consultations on this proposal
[to sign the root zone]". Therefore we are not in a position to say much.

Full text is at 
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/baker-to-twomey-09sep08.pdf

kim