Not really, but giving up on it will make a lot of people very sad.
It provides (or can one day provide) a lot of security of various kinds that we don’t have right now. That said, the kinds of threats DNSSEC is designed to mitigate may not be all that much worse than SOPA.
Fair point, I should have been more specific. Maybe “An alternate DNS server that’s unlikely to block things without at least a court order”
You can’t use an alternate DNS server (that actually returns replies different from the official server) without breaking DNSSEC.
Ah, thanks, I’ll update my post accordingly. Not having done a lot of work with online things, how essential is DNSSEC to day-to-day internet use?
Not really, but giving up on it will make a lot of people very sad.
It provides (or can one day provide) a lot of security of various kinds that we don’t have right now. That said, the kinds of threats DNSSEC is designed to mitigate may not be all that much worse than SOPA.