 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Academic Group Releases Plan To Share Power Over Internet Root Zone Keys
Syracuse, NY (SPX) May 24, 2007 A group of scholars centered at Syracuse University has published a plan to decentralize authority over the Internet domain name system (DNS) as it transitions to a new, more secure technology known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). At a symposium in Washington, D.C., May 17, the Internet Governance Project (IGP) unveiled a plan to decentralize control over the process of digitally signing the root zone file using public key encryption. The need for the plan was made clear recently when news of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report on DNSSEC implementation triggered international controversy by raising fears that the U.S. government planned to control the "master keys" to the Internet. The IGP proposal would distribute control over the process of signing the root zone file to multiple organizations, all of them nongovernmental in nature, defusing fears that U.S. national security agencies will control the Internet's DNS root zone keys. According to IGP spokesperson Brenden Kuerbis, the proposal "increases the resilience of the system, eliminates the threat of political interference in Internet administration, and diffuses liability among the entities involved." DNSSEC is a proposed Internet standard that modifies DNS resource records and protocols to provide security for query and response transactions made between domain name resolvers and nameservers. The international meeting in Washington, "Internet Governance and Security: Exploring Global and National Solutions," was jointly hosted by SU's School of Information Studies (iSchool), the George Mason University Law School's Critical Infrastructure Protection Program and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne's Executive Master's Program in e-Governance. The event brought together legal and policy experts in Internet governance, representatives of the IETF, ICANN, DHS, the U.S. Commerce Department, the Internet Systems Consortium and students from the e-Governance program. The Internet Governance Project (IGP) is a consortium of academic experts who produce research and policy analyses on global Internet governance. Its work contributes to policy discussions in the Internet Governance Forum, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), World Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, and related debates at other global, regional and national levels. The goals of IGP are: + to inform and shape Internet public policy choices by providing independent analysis and timely recommendations; + to identify and analyze new possibilities for improving global governance institutions; and + to develop policy positions guided by the values of globalism, democratic governance and individual rights. Related Links Syracuse University Internet Governance Project Satellite-based Internet technologies
Satellite Enables Mobile Wireless Broadband Services To Conventional Devices
Reston VA (SPX) May 16, 2007Mobile Satellite Ventures LP and joint venture partner Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) have announced that MSV has contracted with ILS International Launch Services for the launch in 2009 of one of two high-powered, next-generation satellites, designed to provide seamless, transparent and ubiquitous broadband wireless coverage of North and Central America to consumer electronic devices. |
|
|
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright Space.TV Corporation. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space.TV Corp on any Web page published or hosted by Space.TV Corp. Privacy Statement |
