DNSSEC and the Geopolitical Future of the Internet 70
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synsynackack writes "The Register reports that the DNSSEC protocol could have some very interesting geopolitical implications, including erosion of the scope of state sovereign powers. The chairman of ICANN, Peter Dengate-Thrush, explained, 'We will have to handle the geo-political element of DNSSEC very carefully.' Experts also explained that split DNS and the DNSSEC protocol don't match very well; technically, it is possible for someone at the interface of the global Internet and a country-wide Internet to strip electronic certificates attached to data and repackage the data with a new one."
Re:DNSSEC is an arduous solution (Score:1, Informative)
DNSX Secure Signer by Xelerance Corporation. Disclaimer: I work for them. Google it.
Re:Clearly what they need to do is just get ride T (Score:1, Informative)
The TLDs serve a very important purpose: They're administrative boundaries. If the policies of one TLD don't suit you, choose a different one for your domains. The DNS root should therefore only have very limited say in how TLD registries do their job and indeed the TLDs are implemented very differently.
Re:Clearly what they need to do is just get ride T (Score:1, Informative)
Then there'd be only one registry and one set of rules - the rules of the root registry. The separate registries are what keeps some level of competition alive. The root registry only gets to set basic interoperability rules, but the economics and technical implementations are the TLD registries' business.