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 “performed reliably and effectively” and “has coped with the extremely rapid expansion of internet usage”. The report will also fail to surprise many by adding that “not all desirable steps to ensure DNS security have yet been implemented.”
The NAS panel says further steps could…
