Dear Brenden Kuerbis, dear reader, Thank you for this post. Please, note that the ccNSO IANA Working Group web site is here: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/ianawg.htm The ccNSO IANA Working Group was created by the ccNSO to adress IANA issues. The goal of this group is to improve the service that IANA provides to ccTLDs. The ccNSO IANA Working Group was asked to provide input to the ccNSO on DNSSEC and signing the root : http://ccnso.icann.org/about/minutes/ccnso-minutes-31jul07.pdf "the IANA Working Group is asked for help in providing input to the Council on Root Zone signing from a technical perspective." A paper is curently being issued to respond to this demand. The first part of this paper : "DNSSEC general background", can be found here (draft stage) : http://www.ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/ccnso-iana-wg-dnssec-paper-04feb08.pdf Update about this paper has been provided in New Delhi and can be found here: https://delhi.icann.org/files/guillard-ccnsoianawg-dnssec_11Feb08.pdf Portal on the IANA DNSSEC testbed is here: https://ns.iana.org/dnssec/status.html Announce from Ken Silva over the ccNSO members meeting about an alternative Verisign testbed is here : https://delhi.icann.org/files/Delhi-ccNSO-12FEB08.txt Best regards, --- Olivier Guillard ccNSO IANA Working Group Chair Note: presentations provided over the last ccNSO meeting can be found here : http://www.ccnso.icann.org/meetings/newdelhi/presentations.htm