Verisign and NLnet Labs have recently announced the first beta release (0.1.0) of an open source implementation of the getdns API specification. The project's home page is at https://getdnsapi.net.

getdns is a modern asynchronous DNS API. It implements DNS entry points from a design developed and vetted by application developers, in the specification at http://www.vpnc.org/getdns-api/ edited by Paul Hoffman.

With the implementation of this API, we intend to offer application developers a modernized and flexible way to access DNS security (DNSSEC) and other powerful new DNS features; a particular hope is to inspire application developers towards innovative security solutions in their applications.

In this presentation I will give an application developers view of DNSSEC and describe the independently written getDNS API specification. I will showcase the open source implementation of the specification built by our team of developers from NLNet Labs and Verisign.

The presentation will cover how to

• perform resolution in all the different forms
• the different ways to perform DNSSEC and the different levels of security assurances applications can get
• the asynchronous support and how our implementation can integrate in the application developers event base of choice
• the extensibility of the library the limits of our current implementation and
• the roadmap for near-future development