After seven years and $1 million, some of the finest scientific minds in the US have concluded that a key technology underpinning the internet is working, well, just fine as it happens.
A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel says the Domain Name System, which translates names like newscientist.com into numeric internet protocol addresses, has 鈥減erformed reliably and effectively鈥� and 鈥渉as coped with the extremely rapid expansion of internet usage鈥�. The report will also fail to surprise many by adding that 鈥渘ot all desirable steps to ensure DNS security have yet been implemented.鈥�
The NAS panel says further steps could be taken to prevent spoofing 鈥� the practice of stealing a domain name 鈥� and warns against allowing corporate interests too much influence on the naming system in the future.
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