Subject: Status of DNSSEC signing of .arpa?

From: Samuel Weiler <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 08:28:55 -0400 (EDT)

Kind IAB,

Today is the three year anniversary of the IAB's request that IANA 
sign .arpa and related zones. [1]

Three years later, IANA has been competently signing those zones in a 
testbed for some time [2], but the production zones still aren't 
signed [3].  Meanwhile, several other top level domains have signed 
their production zones [4].

Why aren't these zones signed?  When can we expect the production 
zones to be signed?  And what's the IAB doing to follow up on its 
request?

-- Samuel Weiler

[1] http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence/2006-05-15-IAB-request-to-IANA-to-sign-DNSSEC-zones.html
[2] https://ns.iana.org/dnssec/status.html
[3] 'dig +dnssec arpa. dnskey'
[4] http://www.xelerance.com/dnssec/