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Q&A: New IAB chair mulls DNS security, unwanted Internet traffic - Network World: "IAB chair Olaf Kolkman says DNSSEC isn't a failure, but it will take a while for the security extensions to become widely deployed

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Olaf Kolkman, a Dutch DNS expert, is the new chair of the Internet Architecture Board, a panel of 13 leading network engineers who provide technical oversight to the IETF, the Internet's premier standards-setting body. He's also CEO of NLnet Labs, an Amsterdam research group focused on DNS security. After taking over as IAB chair at an IETF meeting in Prague last week, Kolkman corresponded with Network World Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan and shared some thoughts about his new role, why it's taking DNSSEC (an approach to authenticating DNS traffic) so long to catch on, and topics the IAB may be tackling over the next year or two."