January 2010 Archives

The Signed Root Is Coming! (And what this means for you)

30 Jan 2010
By Peter Losher

In the Fall of 2009, the organizations responsible for generating the root zone, ICANN, Verisign, and the US Department of Commerce, announced that they had come to a agreement on how to sign the root zone with DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) A website has been created by ICANN and Verisign to provide information about the change and a rollout timeline.

ASN Collisions and Human Error

03 Jan 2010
Leo Bicknell

There is nothing more sensational than the unexpected, and when the NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) community was recently informed that an ASN collision had occurred it caused a lot of people to sit up and take notice. This event was also very interesting in that researching takes us back to a time before ARIN and RIPE existed, creating an interesting historical twist.

Why is ISC a not-for-profit?

23 Jan 2010
Paul Vixie

I was asked recently, "why is ISC a not-for-profit?" Apparently we walk
like a for-profit and we quack like a for-profit but we are in fact not
for-profit. Most companies with a strong brand like ours have share
holders. Why not ISC?

Primarily because the infrastructure we're responsible for -- BIND, F-root,
our network -- has to be kept in the public interest. If the current
staff and board got killed by a freak meteor shower, it's nice to know
that our successors couldn't take ISC's assets out of the public's service.