[dns-wg] Call for Support of our NTIA response posted

[Peter Koch pk@localhost]

Dear DNS WG,

the draft NTIA response has now been forwarded to the general RIPE discussion
list <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/ripe-list/2008/msg00048.html>
for endorsement.

Find below the differences between version 1.8 last called here and version
1.9, which went to the list.  The changes clarify the originating entity
and add a reference to RIPE's previous effort w.r.t. signing the root.

-Peter Koch [for the DNS WG co-chairs]

--- version1.8  2008-11-14 19:34:14.000000000 +0100
+++ version1.9  2008-11-14 09:40:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
 #
-#      $Id: ntia-draft,v 1.8 2008/11/09 17:28:20 jim Exp $
+#      $Id: ntia-draft,v 1.9 2008/11/13 20:20:41 jim Exp $
 #
 
-The RIPE community (or DNS WG?) thanks the NTIA for its consultation
-on proposals to sign the root and is pleased to offer the following
-response to that consultation. We urge the adoption of a solution that
-leads to the prompt introduction of a signed root zone. Our community
-considers the introduction of a signed root zone to be an essential
-enabling step towards widespread deployment of Secure DNS, DNSSEC.
+The RIPE community thanks the NTIA for its consultation on proposals
+to sign the root and is pleased to offer the following response to
+that consultation. We urge the adoption of a solution that leads to
+the prompt introduction of a signed root zone. Our community considers
+the introduction of a signed root zone to be an essential enabling
+step towards widespread deployment of Secure DNS, DNSSEC. This view
+is supported by the letter from the RIPE community to ICANN as an
+outcome of discussions at the May 2007 RIPE meeting in Tallinn:
+http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/icann-root-signing.pdf.
 
 It is to be expected that a community as diverse as RIPE cannot have a
-unified set of detailed answers to the NTIA questionnaire. However  
-several
-members of the RIPE community will be individually responding to that
-questionnaire. We present the following statement as the consensus
-view of our community (or the DNS Working Group?) about the principles
-that should form the basis of the introduction of a signed DNS root.
+unified set of detailed answers to the NTIA questionnaire. However
+several members of the RIPE community will be individually responding
+to that questionnaire. We present the following statement as the
+consensus view of our community about the principles that should form
+the basis of the introduction of a signed DNS root.
 
 1. Secure DNS, DNSSEC, is about data authenticity and integrity and
 not about control.