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Subject: FW: [Dnssec-deployment] 3 years on, 1/3 done?
Hi all, I am forwarding this email from a DNSSEC email list because of this quote at the end of the email. "things that take a long time to mature seem to live longer" I think this applies to XDI. Read the whole note below. It has a few references that you may find interesting. - Les -----Original Message----- From: Edward Lewis <ed.lewis@neustar.biz> Date: Friday, July 19, 2013 8:29 AM To: "dnssec-deployment@dnssec-deployment.org" <dnssec-deployment@dnssec-deployment.org> Cc: "Lewis, Ed" <Lewis@neustar.biz> Subject: Re: [Dnssec-deployment] 3 years on, 1/3 done? > >On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:15, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: >> >> I hope you'll forgive my sarcasm. > > >I've been staring at this in my in-box wondering if there's a worthwhile >reply. > >The fact that 1/3rd of the TLDs are signed is not a statement that it is >taking off, in fact, the number of signed TLDs has been fairly flat for >many months. In this calendar year very few TLDs have started signing, 3 >"ascii" ccTLDs and 2 "idn" ccTLDs. I've noticed newly signed TLDs this >year on Jan 22, Apr 2, 5, 21, and Jun 20. (My dates are the day after >the event, when my monitors "pick it up.") That's not a fast rise, less >than one a month! > >There's even been a "retreat" - on May 8 one ccTLD ceased signing. In the >past there's a case of a ccTLD signing, stopping, then resuming. Natural >course of engineering. > >In just about all TLDs where DS records are present for more than even, >maybe, 2% of the delegations, there is a financial incentive. Not just >the example you've cited, but in just about all of them. Where there's >no incentive, DNSSEC is present but scant. (Lesson - economics trumps >technology!) > >"So what?" > >DNSSEC can be described as using a tank to kill a fly. Or it can be the >foundation of a more secured Internet, an enabler of DANE. Expectations >of adoption rate are set by someone's interest in seeing DNSSEC or an >alternative succeed or fail. But expectations are just figments of the >imagination. > >Looking at other cases of something being created and then dispersed, >things that take a long time to mature seem to live longer. Biologically >this has been studied, organisms that mature quickly have shorter >lifespans. As with any scientific study, it's best to read the reports >and check out the caveats. (See papers like this >http://www.senescence.info/comparative_biology.html and >http://www.jax.org/news/archives/2012/aging-pnas.html) > >Engineers like spectacular growth rates. Nature does not. > >PS. The Internet is 40 years old and still is used by only 1/3rd of the >world's population. ;) Just had to add that "red herring." >(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring) > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >- >Edward Lewis >NeuStar You can leave a voice message at >+1-571-434-5468 > >There are no answers - just tradeoffs, decisions, and responses. >
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