Internet Infrastructure Protection (IIP)

Summary:

The Internet infrastructure is insecure and unreliable, we are trying to fix that.

Description:

Working with industry and Government to design, standardized, test and foster commercial deployment of new technologies and techniques to improve the security, robustness and scaling of core Internet infrastructure.

Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC).
Internet Domain Routing / Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Security.
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).

Major Accomplishments:

Inter-domain Routing Robustness:
- Completed analysis of existing data driven BGP robustness mechanisms.

End Date:

ongoing

Lead Organizational Unit:

ITL

Source of Extramural Funding:

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T).

Customers/Contributors/Collaborators:

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Staff:

Doug Montgomery - Project Manager

Contact

Internet Infrastructure Protection Project:

proj-iip@nist.gov.