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

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

Not everything businesses or non-commercial groups do is within ICANN just
because they are represented in it.  What is it you think IS within
ICANN's purview and needs addressing? 

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Cade,Marilyn S - LGA wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Schneiders [mailto:marc@venster.nl]
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:32 PM
> To: John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D.
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] We can't be against it?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, at 18:16 [=GMT-0400], John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So they say, and as a worshipper of FreeBSD I have no reason to deny
> it. I was actually more thinking about root-server security. I cannot
> quite see what ICANN has to with the software run on nameservers.
> Securing the root-servers physically is about the only thing, and
> their distribution. Bind is outside ICANN's sphere, so are the RFCs
> about DNS. I'd be curious about other topics.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Are you telling us this is not already taken care of today???
> 
> 

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