[db-wg] DNSSEC deployment on the reverse tree.

[Apologies for duplicates]

Dear Colleagues

The RIPE NCC has been involved with the development of the DNSSEC
protocol. Now that the protocol has become available, we plan to
implement DNSSEC on our domains in the reverse DNS tree. The
deployment of DNSSEC is the second and last phase of the Reverse DNS
restructuring project.

You can find more information about this project at: 
  http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/index.html

To implement DNSSEC, we propose extending the policy for Policy for
Reverse Address Delegation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space in the RIPE
NCC Service Region.

You can find the proposed policy at: 
  http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/draft-dnssec-policy.html.

We welcome your feedback on this poposal before 1 August 2005. Please
send your comments to the DNS Working Group Mailing List.

We are also introducing two new procedures: 

  "DNSSEC Key Maintenance Procedure"
  http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/key-maintenance-procedure.html

and

  "Procedure for Requesting DNSSEC Delegations"
  http://www.ripe.net/rs/reverse/dnssec/registry-procedure.html

Your feedback on these drafts is also welcome, again please send this
to the DNS Working Group Mailing List.

As part of the "Procedure for Requesting DNSSEC Delegations" we plan
to add a "ds-rdata:" attribute to DOMAIN objects.

Regards

Olaf M Kolkman 
New Projects, RIPE NCC.