[dns-operations] Root zone operational announcement: introducing ZONEMD for the root zone

[Wessels, Duane]

This work is now complete and as of approximately 13:20 UTC today all DNS root servers have begun serving a root zone that includes a ZONEMD record, with a private use algorithm number.

On December 6th we plan to change the root zone ZONEMD record to the SHA384 algorithm number, at which time it will become fully verifiable.


DW

> On Sep 12, 2023, at 2:44 PM, Wessels, Duane via dns-operations <dns-operations at dns-oarc.net> wrote:
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> Verisign and ICANN were originally planning to enable ZONEMD for
> the root zone tomorrow, September 13th.  During a deployment to the
> operational testing environment, we discovered a minor issue.  As
> a result, we, in cooperation with ICANN, have decided to postpone
> the production deployment of ZONEMD until next week, on September
> 21st.
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> DW