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Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), with the support of industry leading sponsors, today reveals plans for BIND 10, the next leap forward in DNS server software.

Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) and Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) are patron sponsors of the multi-year effort committing both financial support and development resources. Afilias, AFNIC, DENIC, IIS.SE, Nominet, NIC.br, SIDN and .za Domain Name Authority complete the list of visionary organizations that have chosen to provide financial support for ISC's development effort. Like its predecessors, BIND 10 will be open source but it will also be modular, highly scalable and provide simple methods for configuration management and integration with other systems.
BIND 10 is being designed to serve the needs of today's dynamic and growing Internet-dependent businesses. The design goals are simple: a secure, flexible, resilient DNS server that integrates easily into the workflow and maintenance of the complex networks organizations demand. The sponsors named in this release have agreed to serve on a steering committee overseeing the development of BIND 10 from the very beginning working with ISC to ensure it will best serve the needs of diverse Internet community.
Secure. BIND 10 will provide the state-of-the-art in DNS security as one would expect. The differentiation will be the way that a user configures the secure services they choose to deploy. The design goal for DNSSEC in BIND 10 is to be usable by the typical DNS administrator with built-in safeguards for key management and renewal.
"JPRS is pleased to join the development effort of BIND 10 as the .JP registry," said Koki Higashida, president of JPRS. "The Internet has expanded day by day, and its reliability as a social infrastructure is required. BIND 10 will accomplish what is needed for DNS that supports the Internet in the future, such as the full support for DNSSEC and the flexible operation of large-scale DNS. By using the experiences of .JP registry, JPRS will support this project positively for not only TLD registries but worldwide DNS managers."
Flexible. BIND 10 will be modular by design and implementation. A user can easily configure a lightweight resolver or a fully featured authoritative server in a given installation. Even non-BIND specific modules can be integrated such as an SQL-based server or a pre-compiled answer database ensuring very high performance.
Scalability is another property that will be intrinsic to BIND 10. From a large complex system used by country code top level domains, like .de or .uk, to small home system, like a cable modem, BIND 10 will run efficiently based upon the resources it has to draw from optimizing the performance delivered.
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