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Peter Thomassen

Peter Thomassen is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of deSEC, a free, managed DNSSEC hosting platform. It is deSEC's mission to enhance the security of online data transmission, by spreading the seamless use of state-of-the-art encryption technology. He is also a Managing Director at SSE Secure Systems Engineering, a German IT Security Consultancy.

Peter is an active member of the IETF with contributions to various working groups that have overlap with the DNS. He has presented on related topics at ICANN, IETF, RIPE, and DNS OARC conferences as well as the CA/B Forum. His main interests lie with security concepts that are deployable on large scale and relate to communications privacy, the key exchange problem, and efficient DNSSEC automation.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair Domain Connect (dconn) [email protected]
Secretary Domain Name System Operations (dnsop) [email protected]

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Username peterthomassen

RFCs (3)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 9432 Jul 2023 DNS Catalog Zones
RFC 9615 Jul 2024 Automatic DNSSEC Bootstrapping Using Authenticated Signals from the Zone's Operator
RFC 9859 Sep 2025 Generalized DNS Notifications

Active Internet-Drafts (3)

Expired Internet-Drafts (8)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity