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

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

How does one guard against all sorts of mission creep, with ICANN
exploiting a situation to justify new and broader powers?   It's own
role in network security should be very limited, it would seem to me.
Jamie


On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Cade,Marilyn S - LGA wrote:

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> sorry, I think you  missed the mention of "security" in my post.  Data
> escrow is only a part of the issues needing priority attention in ensuring
> stability, security, and integrity in threat situations.
>
> Marilyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jefsey Morfin [mailto:jefsey@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 6:13 AM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [ga] We can't be against it?
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> On 03:12 29/09/01, Cade,Marilyn S - LGA said:
> >hmm, so some don't consider business registrants/others
> >a constituency?  We think we are represented by one of the ICANN DNSO
> >constituencies. And the non commercial registrants are engaged through the
> >N-C Constituency.
> >
> >...and that security and data escrow are a priority, and should become even
> >more so.
>
> Sure, domain name protection is of the essence.
>
> But is the escrow of bugged systems and tables the only system to protect
> us. I doubt it. Let be clear: would NSI be blown up, burnt or flooded, what
> would you make with the 24,000,000 DN data they have or not in a vault? You
> would need their system to be rebuilt in the same way, in the very hour.
> - millions of DN on hold? It would be worst that starting it anew? It would
> be thousands USRPs...
> - do you know that to register a name server IP you have to send a fax
> (anyone can fake) and wait for a week? Rebuilding the NSI Sytem would asj
> for months. As Roberto explained it, it would never happen as NSI or the
> world would have gone down before.
>
> The best escrow is a title you can hold and show and a smart card you can
> use on every registry system. May be large businesses with legal staff and
> business enough may accept other solutions. May be individual or NonCom may
> accept temporary patches or loss of access. SMEs cannot: our live depends
> more an more on a tiny something undefined, not protected, not... this not
> ... that, costing $9. Makes the life of our entreprises worth less than a
> pizza. This is not serious.
>
> Jefsey
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