Re: [ga] Condolences

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Jefsey Morfin wrote:

> I am shocked by the New York tragedy, a place where I had friends or
> business relations among people working in the building, hotel and
> commercial center where I used to go... I will probably never know their
> fate good or bad. My condoleances to everyone affected by this tragedy on
> this list.
>
> On 20:08 11/09/01, William X Walsh said:
> >Tuesday, Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 10:50:01 AM, L Gallegos wrote:
> > > Perhaps the members of the GA could now consider the meaning
> > > of a single point of failure with a non-distributed root.
> >
> >While I supported the sentiment of the rest of your message, I find
> >this not only an incorrect characterization, but I find it offensive
> >to use this event to further that agenda.
>
> I understand your remark but I am afraid you misudersand what Leah says.
> Half the root servers are on the East coast. On Saturday I made a point in
> my Montevideo presentation about a power outage on the East US Coast and
> the Internet going progressively down. In case of tragedy we do not need
> that in addition. What Leah talks about is not inclusive root, but
> non-distributed root system. Nothing would prevent the root servers to be
> distributed over several 13 machines galaxies all over the planet - even
> under the tight control of the DoC and using the restricted ICANN root.

This was also my interpretation of Leah's remark, although William is not wrong

in suggesting that such a tragedy as this is no place to advance personal
agenda.
The point being made is that we must recall the underlying structural plan put
in
place when the first "internet" communications were sent: this was a military
operation, and the object was to ensure survival of communications capability,
through replicated server sites and so on.  Well, what with terrorist attacks
on
New York and D.C., and also the hacking and sabotage of USG net sites,
the Internet again becomes a military operation so far as the US, at least, is
concerned  In its basic responsibility to "preserve the stability of the
Internet,"
ICANN now has the paramount duty of ensuring the implementation of the same
kind of distributed root system as was used at the very beginning.  The ability
of
the FBI and other national and international police agencies to track the true
origins of Internet communications must also be protected and enhanced as
much as possible, so that denial of service attacks or anything like that can
be
traced to their source and the originators arrested and prosecuted.

As will be the perpetrators of today's tragedy.

Bill Lovell

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