ICANN Faces questions of DoS/DNS Attacks and Porn as Meetings Begin in New Zeala

[Kristijntje]

[quote author=mandy link=topic=198.msg11468#msg11468 date=1143452873]

As the ICANN’s week-long meeting in Wellington, New Zealand is now fully underway, the approval of the proposed .XXX top-level domain (TLD) continues to remain a key topic of discussion and its eventual approval yet uncertain. The .XXX TLD was widely expected to receive its final approval at the ICANN’s last meeting held in Vancouver about 4 months earlier but the discussion was unexpectedly delayed as the organization and governments requested more time to review the merits of setting up such a domain.

full article: http://www.circleid.com/posts/lastest_tu...ellington/

The chances of a ".xxx" domain for adult websites being approved at a meeting of Icann in Wellington this week appear to be waning, after a US government agency raised fresh concerns about the proposal.

A senior official at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in Washington DC told NZ InfoTech that it was concerned about differences between the original application for the.xxx domain and a draft contract now being considered by Icann, the international body that governs the Internet.

Canadian firm ICM Registry has applied for permission to set up and administer the red-light zone in cyberspace. It would charge webmasters $US60 to register a website with a.xxx address...

full article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3616...75,00.html

Schedule, agenda, and info on the ICANN Meetings in Wellington, New Zealand, 25 - 31 March 2006: http://www.icann.org/meetings/wellington/
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A related article:

Denial of service attacks and a revolt over porn are two topics expected to percolate at the March 27 meeting of a major Internet ruling body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

Perhaps the more important of the two major issues facing ICANN at the meeting is the problem of the DoS attacks, which began in January.

The attacks, which have been numerous, use the domain name server to change the IP address of each Web site to the format "www.xxx.xxx."...

At its meeting, ICANN is set to hear two recommendations on how to halt the attacks,...

full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1943329,00.asp

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http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...198.0.html
Use of DNS reflector and amplification attacks on the Rise by Hackers
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...173.0.html
DDoS Denial of Service Attacks: Network Security's Biggest Threat, Still
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...196.0.html

[mandy]

The Wellington meeting also saw developments in relation to Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Strong community feedback was received throughout the week that backed ICANN's progress towards the implementation of non Latin character sets into the Root...

Another key outcome of the meeting was the release of two reports by ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC). The first report examined amplified DNS Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, while the second report looked at alternate Roots and IDNs. The reports appeal to the Internet Community to take these issues seriously.

The DDoS report identifies short and long-term measures to reduce the opportunities for and minimize the effects of DDoS attacks, while the report into alternate Roots and IDNs examines and identifies the motives that cause "breakaway" activities, and explains the issues and conditions that can accelerate fragmentation of the root name service. It also examines the consequences that such activities may have on Internet users and service providers....

full article: http://www.w3reports.com/?itemid=1299