DNS security, net neutrality up for debate at IETF meeting
23 Jul 2009
DNS security, IPv6 adoption and network neutrality will top the agenda at next week’s meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet’s premier standards-setting body, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden.
A panel discussion about securing the DNS will be held Tuesday, featuring speakers from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Society, the operators of Sweden’s .se domain, the operators of the .org domain and VeriSign, which operates .com and .net.
DNS security extensions known as DNSSEC will be discussed at this panel as well as at various IETF working groups’ meetings. DNSSEC is an emerging standard that prevents spoofing attacks by letting Web sites verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption.
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