Final Meeting Will Take Stock

The fifths and last DNSSEC testbed meeting was held on 8 February 2011. With this meeting, the DNSSEC testbed initiated by the Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI), the Association of the German Internet Economy (eco) and DENIC was concluded.

The testbed offered the opportunity to collect operational and technical experience, to assess risks and to find out about user acceptance. The previous meetings informed in detail about these aspects and discussed and solved many pending questions. At the final meeting, the initiators gave a concise summary and DENIC presented its plans for implementing DNSSEC in the praxis. As starting date for DNSSEC the 31 May 2011 was announced.