RE: [ga] We can't be against it?

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

I find it really funny, as well as, a good indicator of how hard ICANN is
mashing the panic-button.

I've been maintaining, for YEARS, that ICANN needs to implement a Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI), simply so that it can run a decent election. MHSC will
be happy to build such a system for the ICANN and it wouldn't need to burn a
whole board meeting to do it. It takes 5 minutes to approve an RFP. If
securing their system takes that level of cogitation, then the cogitators
need to buy a few more spark plugs, the ones they have are mis-firing. I
charge a lot less than Jones-Day. Shoot, I even have somne of the
ground-work laid out, from the last time we went around this bush.


|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. [mailto:john@johnberryhill.com]
|> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 3:17 PM
|> To: Marc Schneiders; ga@dnso.org
|> Subject: Re: [ga] We can't be against it?
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> From: "Marc Schneiders" <marc@venster.nl>
|> > But I would
|> > think that if there is one subject that is not really 
|> suited to deal
|> > with in an open transparent and bottom up process it is security
|> > measures.
|> 
|> Quite the contrary, actually.  Which is the reason why, for 
|> example, the
|> recent Nimda worm exploited proprietary software, and not open source
|> software.
|> 
|> It is the worst-kept secret on the internet that the 
|> greatest threat to
|> stability of the domain name system lies in the fact that 
|> ICANN has done
|> practically nothing along the lines of their required job of 
|> escrowing domain
|> registrant data in the event of registrar failure.  
|> Naturally, this important
|> and neglected job only inures to the benefit of domain name 
|> registrants, by
|> protecting the integrity of domain name registrations 
|> against financial or
|> other disruption in registrar operation.  Domain name 
|> registrants are, of
|> course, not a constituency of this domain name regulation 
|> authority, so
|> security of registrations is simply not a priority.
|> 
|> 
|> 
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