[governance] ICANN might name former DHS cybersecurity boss its president?

[Joe Baptista]

*ICANN might name former DHS cybersecurity boss its president?*

Source: CongressDaily<http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/hbp_20090619_9406.php>
06/19/2009<http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/hbp_20090619_9406.php>

Former Homeland Security Department National Cybersecurity Center Director
Rod Beckstrom could become the new president and CEO of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

ICANN a nonprofit group based in California oversees sixty to seventy
percent of the Internet address system. ICANN is a contractor to the
Department of Commerce.

Beckstrom, who served as the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center
(NCSC) in 2008 at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was seen
trolling the ICANN meeting in Sydney wearing an ICANN staff badge.

I predict his appointment and association with the DHS will result in
further erosion of market share for ICANN. Since ICANN was formed in 1998
they have lost Forty percent market share in the provisioning of root domain
name service (DNS). The first country to jump ship was China.

The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry
ÖлªÈËÃñ¹²ºÍ¹úÐÅÏ¢²úÒµ²¿<http://www.mii.gov.cn/>(MII) built it¡¯s own addressing
infrastructure in 2000. The Chinese no
longer rely on the U.S. government for domain resolution. In China users can
surf the Internet in Chinese.

If you happen to be in China you can visit Peking University using their
Chinese character domain name
±±¾©´óѧ.Öйú<http://%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%a6.%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd/>like
millions of other Chinese do. Chinese domains will not work for users
who¡¯s Internet is under U.S. Government control.

Other countries are also following the China lead including Russia and
India. Turkey left in 2005.

*EOL*

*Editors note: *If you want to test Chinese character domains, or even visit
the Kremlin in Moscow using Russian language domains ¨C
§á§â§Ö§Ù§Ú§Õ§Ö§ß§ä.§à§â§Ô<http://%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b7%d0%b8%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bd%d1%82.%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b3/>¨C
you can visit the Cesidian
Root <http://www.cesidianroot.net/> and use their DNS to surf. Instructions
are available under the heading ¡°Changing TCP/IP configuration¡±.



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