Dear APRALO Community,

As you are aware, the first-ever Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover is slated for 11 Oct 2018. Here's a blog forwarded from ICANN which talks about the possible impacts of the rollover.

The blog opines that the likely impact of the rollover process is likely to be minimal, as it would be confined to a very small portion of Internet users.

With kind regards,





satish




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Olive <david.olive@icann.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:15 PM
Subject: Measuring the KSK Rollover



https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2018-09/kskroll.html

From Conclusions:

"When considering the larger pool of all users, then these results indicate that some 0.01% of the Internet’s entire user population may encounter some DNS resolution issues when the KSK rolls.

The uncertainty levels in this measurement are ± 0.22% as measured by the noise component of the results. As this is far greater than the non-readiness measurement of 0.01% of users, then perhaps there are grounds to believe that the situation may be better than these figures would indicate, and the true level of non-readiness for the KSK roll is far smaller than the 0.01% of users that these results indicate.”

 

Regards,      David

 

David A. Olive  | Senior Vice President

Policy Development Support
ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

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