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

["John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com>]

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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