[Public Comments] NCSG Comment on KSK Rollover Draft

Michael J. Oghia mike.oghia at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 22 01:08:03 EET 2018


+1 from me too, thanks for this! I just added a few formatting and grammar
edits.

Best,
-Michael

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks Louise for sharing the draft and to the team for the work done with
> this comment. It is a good example of collaborative work for drafting
> comment and sharing the burden between several volunteers. as Policy
> Committee Chair, I encourage such approach for public comment for those
> volunteering.
> @all please review the draft and share your comments, the google doc is in
> suggestion mode.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
>
> 2018-03-22 3:23 GMT+09:00 Louise Marie Hurel <louise.marie.hsd at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Comments on the Plan to Restart the Root Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover
>> Process opened early February this year
>> <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ksk-rollover-restart-2018-02-01-en>.
>> For those who have not been following the process that closely, KSK serves
>> as a trust anchor for DNSSEC and was last (and for the first time) signed
>> in 2010. ICANN had scheduled to implement a new key in October. However,
>> they decided to postpone the signing of new cryptographic keys for the DNS
>> after finding that the resolvers used by ISPs and network operators were
>> still not ready and there's a need for more data in prepping for it.
>>
>> While the comment is narrow and highly technical in its scope, the
>> overall idea of the process can be read as taking the next step in
>> consolidating a way of periodically changing keys -- thus enhancing
>> security and resilience in the DNS.
>>
>> Tomslin, Dina and I have worked on this draft
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VNxn4UJlk8z196Kz56ucAdgyWp0ua9NmdHexRE1Wkhc/edit>
>> and would be happy to get more comments edits, suggestions on this. Feel
>> free to jump in.
>>
>> For more info, see here
>> <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-09-27-en> and here
>> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/plan-continuing-root-ksk-rollover-01feb18-en.pdf>
>> .
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Louise Marie Hurel
>>
>> Cybersecurity Project Coordinator | Igarapé Institute
>>
>> London School of Economics (LSE) Media and Communications (Data and
>> Society)
>> Skype: louise.dias
>> +44 (0) 7468 906327 <+44%207468%20906327>
>> *l.h.dias at lse.ac.uk <l.h.dias at lse.ac.uk> *
>> louise.marie.hsd at gmail.com
>>
>>
>
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