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identification, behavioral observations, 

and passive acoustics and may be 

conducted until January 31, 2010. 

File No. 10081: Issued to Natalija 

Lace, University of Southern 

Mississippi, 118 College Drive, 

Hattiesburg, MS 39406, on November 

13, 2007, to investigate how natural 

features and the noise levels of habitats 

affect the acoustic characteristics of the 

signals produced by bottlenose 

dolphins. Activities include the use of 

passive acoustics in Tampa Bay, Florida 

through November 15, 2010. 

File No. 1064–1748: Issued to 

National Ocean Service’s Center for 

Coastal Environmental Health and 

Biomolecular Researach, 219 Fort 

Johnson Road, Charleston, SC [Principal 

Investigator: Eric Zolman] on February 

8, 2008, for photo-identification and 

vessel surveys of bottlenose dolphins off 

South Carolina through March 31, 2009. 

The study was modified to expand the 

geographic location to include eastcentral Georgia and to add focal follows 

as a research tool to examine 

interactions between dolphins and crab 

pots. The amended Letter of 

Confirmation No. 1064–1748–01 

supercedes version 1064–1748–00 

issued on March 30, 2004. 

File No. 13386: Issued to The Taras 

Oceanographic Foundation, 905 

Stonewood Court, Jupiter, FL [Principal 

Investigator: Barbara Brunnick] on May 

12, 2008, to document the abundance 

and distribution of bottlenose dolphins 

off the coast of Palm Beach County, 

Florida. Activities include the use of 

photo-identification and vessel surveys 

and are authorized through June 1, 

2013. 

File No. 13427: Issued to the Pacific 

Whale Foundation, 300 Ma’alaea Rd., 

Ste. 211, Wailuku, HI 96793 [Principal 

Investigator: Quincy A. Gibson, Ph.D.] 

on June 4, 2008, for line transect surveys 

and photo-identification of several nonlisted cetacean species found in the 

deeper waters offshore of Maui County, 

Hawaii. The purpose of the proposed 

research is to gather information on the 

distribution, habitat use, abundance and 

behavior of several lesser studied, nonlisted odontocetes. The activities may be 

conducted through June 15, 2013. 

File No. 13416: Issued to Jessica 

Weiss, 310 West Eden St., Kill Devil 

Hills, NC 27948, on June 4, 2008, for the 

close approach, photo-identification, 

behavioral observations, and focal 

follows of bottlenose dolphins within 

North Carolina waters and the adjacent 

Atlantic Ocean. The purpose of this 

research is to investigate the seasonal 

and year-round residency of Western 

North Atlantic coastal or offshore 

bottlenose dolphins in the northern 

Outer Banks of North Carolina, in 

addition to identifying any biological 

and/or ecological stressors on the 

dolphins in the area. The activities may 

be conducted through May 31, 2013. 

File No. 1099–1846: Issued to Jamie 

McKee, SAIC, 1140 Eglin Parkway, 

Shalimar, FL 32578 on May 12, 2006, 

for line transect surveys for the inshore 

and estuarine stocks of Atlantic 

bottlenose dolphins in south Georgia 

estuaries near the Naval Submarine Base 

Kings Bay. These activities may be 

conducted until May 31, 2011. This 

study was modified to authorize photoidentification of animals during surveys. 

The amended Letter of Confirmation No. 

1099–1846–01 supercedes version 

1099–1846–00, issued on June 6, 2008. 

File No. 572–1869: Issued to Daniel K. 

Odell, Ph.D., Hubbs-SeaWorld Research 

Institute, 6295 Sea Harbor Drive, 

Orlando, FL 32821 on June 17, 2008, to 

conduct vessel surveys, photoidentification, behavioral observations, 

passive acoustic recordings, and 

videography of bottlenose dolphins in 

the Indian River Lagoon on the eastcentral coast of Florida; in the Key West, 

FL area; and in the coastal waters of 

Georgia. In addition, aerial surveys of 

bottlenose dolphins may be conducted 

over the Indian River Lagoon. These 

activities may be conducted through 

November 14, 2011. The study was 

modified to include photo-identification 

work in waters from Ponce Inlet to the 

northern border of Flagler County in 

Florida. The amended Letter of 

Confirmation No. 572–1869–01 

supercedes version 572–1869–00, issued 

on November 14, 2006. 

File No. 13525: Issued to Richard 

Connor, Ph.D., University of 

Massachusetts at Dartmouth, North 

Dartmouth, MA 02740 on July 25, 2008, 

for behavioral observations, video 

documentation, and photoidentification of bottlenose dolphins in 

Beaufort County, SC. The activities may 

be conducted through October 31, 2010. 

File No. 13549: Issued to Moby A. 

Solangi, Ph.D., Institute for Marine 

Mammal Studies, P.O. Box 207, 

Gulfport, MS 39502 on August 20, 2008, 

for transect surveys, photoidentification, and behavioral 

observations of bottlenose dolphins in 

the estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico. 

Occasional aerial surveys are also 

authorized. The activities may be 

conducted through August 31, 2012. 

File No. 572–1869: Issued to Daniel K. 

Odell, Ph.D., Hubbs-SeaWorld Research 

Institute, 6295 Sea Harbor Drive, 

Orlando, FL 32821 on August 20, 2008. 

The study was modified to allow aerial 

surveys at a minimum altitude of 152 

meters (500 feet). The amended Letter of 

Confirmation No. 572–1869–02 

supercedes version 572–1869–01, issued 

on June 17, 2008 (see above paragraph 

for File No. 572–1869 for details). 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final 

determination was made that the 

activities are categorically excluded 

from the requirement to prepare an 

environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

Dated: October 3, 2008. 

P. Michael Payne, 

Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN: 0648–XK84 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting; Revision 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of rescheduling of a 

public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public meeting of its 

Research Steering Committee 

(Committee), in October, 2008, to 

consider actions affecting New England 

fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 

(EEZ). Recommendations from this 

group will be brought to the full Council 

for formal consideration and action, if 

appropriate. 

DATES: The meeting scheduled for 

Thursday, October 16, 2008 has been 

cancelled and rescheduled for 

Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire Street, 

Mansfield, MA 02048; telephone: (508) 

339–2200; fax: (508) 339–1040. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting was originally scheduled for 

Thursday, October 16, 2008. The 

original notice published in the Federal 


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1See, National Research Council, The National 

Academies, Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain 

Name System and Internet Navigation 154 

(2005)(Signposts), http://books.nap.edu/ 

catalog.php?recordlid=11258#toc (last checked 

September 29, 2008); Department of Homeland 

Security, National Security Division, and National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, National 

Vulnerability Database, Vulnerability Summary for 

CVE-2008–1447 (Original release date July 08, 2008; 

last revised September 17, 2008) available at http:/ 

/web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vuln Id=CVE2008–1447 (last checked September 23, 2008) (This 

site provides a list of most recent advisories 

regarding DNS vulnerabilities including DNS 

spoofing, cache poisoning, etc., and includes links 

to tools and solutions). 

2The DNSSEC protocol has been under 

development since the 1990s with the latest 

revision approved by the IETF in 2005. RFC 4033 

and its companion documents RFCs 4034 and 4035 

update, clarify and refine the security extensions 

previously defined orginally in RFC 2535 and its 

predecessors. Id., Signposts, at 154; see also, S. Rose 

and R. Chandramouli, ‘‘Challenges in Securing the 

Domain Name System,’’ Institute of Electrical and 

Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Security and Privacy 

Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 84 (Tom Karygiannis, Rick 

Kuhn, and Susan Landau eds., Jan./Feb. 

2006)(Challenges), http://www.antd.nist.gov/pubs/ 

Rose-Challenges%20in%20Securing%20DNS.pdf. 

3R. Arends et al., DNS Security Introduction and 

Requirements, Internet Engineering Task Force 

(IETF) Request for Comment (RFC) 4033 (March 

2005)(RFC 4033), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ 

rfc4033.txt (last checked September 24, 2008). 

4 Id. 

Register on Thursday, October 2, 2008 

(73 FR 57336). 

The Council’s Research Steering 

Committee (Committee) will address a 

range of issues including a briefing on 

the status of NMFS’ Cooperative 

Research Program activities and 

funding. The Committee also will 

review preliminary work of the 

NEFMC’s 5-year research priorities. The 

Committee will re-examine, and 

possibly revise, the evaluation criteria 

for cooperative research priorities 

subject to review by the Committee as 

well as review a small number of 

cooperative research project final 

reports. The Committee will also 

discuss the use of a workshop format to 

conduct future Committee management 

reviews. Finally, the Committee will 

discuss outstanding issues related to the 

Council’s research set-aside programs if 

time allows. The Committee may 

consider other topics at their discretion. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

listed in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, at (978) 

465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the 

meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: October 6, 2008. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–23941 Filed 10–8–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration 

Docket Number: 0810021307–81308–01 

Enhancing the Security and Stability of 

the Internet’s Domain Name and 

Addressing System 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce 

ACTION: Notice of Inquiry 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Department) notes the increase in 

interest among government, technology 

experts and industry representatives 

regarding the deployment of Domain 

Name and Addressing System Security 

Extensions (DNSSEC) at the root zone 

level. The Department remains 

committed to preserving the security 

and stability of the DNS and is 

exploring the implementation of 

DNSSEC in the DNS hierarchy, 

including at the authoritative root zone 

level. Accordingly, the Department is 

issuing this notice to invite comments 

regarding DNSSEC implementation at 

the root zone. 

DATES: Comments are due on November 

24, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted by mail to Fiona Alexander, 

Associate Administrator, Office of 

International Affairs, National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, 

N.W., Room 4701, Washington, DC 

20230. Written comments may also be 

sent by facsimile to (202) 482–1865 or 

electronically via electronic mail to 

DNSSEC@ntia.doc.gov. Comments will 

be posted on NTIA’s website at http:// 

www.ntia.doc.gov/DNS/DNSSEC.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about this Notice, 

please contact Ashley Heineman at 

(202) 482–0298 or 

aheineman@ntia.doc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background. The Domain Name and 

Addressing System (DNS) is a critical 

component of the Internet infrastructure 

and is used by almost every Internet 

protocol-based application to associate 

human readable computer hostnames 

with the numerical addresses required 

to deliver information on the Internet. It 

is a hierarchical and globally distributed 

system in which distinct servers 

maintain the detailed information for 

their local domains and pointers for 

how to navigate the hierarchy to retrieve 

information from other domains. The 

accuracy, integrity, and availability of 

the information supplied by the DNS are 

essential to the operation of any system, 

service or application that uses the 

Internet. 

The DNS was not originally designed 

with strong security mechanisms to 

ensure the integrity and authenticity of 

the DNS data. Over the years, a number 

of vulnerabilities have been identified 

in the DNS protocol that threaten the 

accuracy and integrity of the DNS data 

and undermine the trustworthiness of 

the system. Technological advances in 

computing power and network 

transmission speeds have made it 

possible to exploit these vulnerabilities 

more rapidly and effectively.1

Development of the DNSSEC Protocol. 

To mitigate the long-recognized 

vulnerabilities in the DNS, the Internet 

Engineering Task Force (IETF), using 

the same open standards process 

employed to develop the core DNS 

protocols, has developed a set of 

protocol extensions to protect the 

Internet from certain DNS related 

attacks: DNSSEC.2 DNSSEC is designed 

to support authentication of the source 

and integrity of information stored in 

the DNS using public key cryptography 

and a hierarchy of digital signatures. It 

is designed to offer protection against 

forged (‘‘spoofed’’) DNS data, such as 

that created by DNS cache poisoning, by 

providing: (1) validation that DNS data 

is authentic; (2) assurance of data 

integrity; and (3) authenticated denial of 

existence.3 DNSSEC does not provide 

any confidentiality for, or encryption of, 

the DNS data itself. The DNSSEC 

protocol also does not protect against 

denial of service (DoS) attacks or other 

attacks against the name server itself.4

The DNSSEC protocol is designed to 

allow for deployment in discrete zones 

within the DNS infrastructure without 

requiring deployment elsewhere, as 

DNSSEC is an opt-in technology. 

Signing of any individual zone or 

domain within the hierarchy does not 


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