Agenda IETF101: edu: Thu 12:30
agenda-101-edu-sessd-00

Topic: Rolling the DNS Root Key Based on Input from Many ICANN Communitie

The DNS root key rollover is an excellent example of how ICANN takes input from
a variety of different communities when it makes policies and even operational
plans. The decision to roll the root key five years after the first key was
installed was based on a very rough consensus in the technical community, with
some participants strongly arguing for different policies. The method for
performing the rollover was similarly contentious. ICANN, by its nature, has
many different communities who have a say in every major initiative that ICANN
takes. These communities include Internet standards bodies, operators, and
users, as well as governments, business, and various companies who are
particularly interested in the domain name market.

This talk walks through how ICANN got to where it is today with the root key
rollover, including the currently-open public comment period for the plan to
roll the root key on 11 October 2018.

Speaker: David Conrad, ICANN Chief Technology Officer

As the Chief Technology Officer of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN), David Conrad is at the heart the organization’s mission to
help maintain the security, resiliency and stability of the Internet’s system
of unique identifiers that ICANN helps coordinate. Prior to being named CTO,
Conrad held several different positions at ICANN, including Vice President of
Infrastructure & Technology and General Manager of the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority.

Before joining ICANN, Conrad helped found a number of Internet startups,
including Nominum, a firm focused on Internet name and address management
products and services and was involved in the creation of the second Regional
Internet Registry (RIR), Asia Pacific Network Information Center, the Internet
address allocator for the Asia and Pacific Rim region.

In 2011, Conrad provided senior-level advice and technical input for
CloudFlare, as a member of the organization’s technical staff.  Prior to that,
Conrad was the Executive Director of the Internet Software Consortium during
the development of the "BIND version 9" domain name server.  He was also the
seventh employee at the Internet Initiative Japan Corporation in Tokyo, and has
held a number of software and infrastructure research and development positions
throughout his career.