Executive Summary

The Internet’s underlying addressing system is undergoing a worldwide foundational sea-change, transitioning from its outdated and insecure legacy design to a new, robust architecture which will help protect citizens, business and government from identity theft and fraud. The DotAsia Organisation and its technical service provider, Afilias, are leading the industry with the widespread deployment of DNSSEC, an extension to the Internet’s existing DNS Protocol that will bring an unprecedented degree of trust and confidence to Internet commerce, communications and e-government. As a consequence of this initiative, the .Asia TLD will gain an important security enhancement that will set the stage for the next decade of Internet innovation.