[governance] ICANN might name former DHS cybersecurity boss itspresident?

Thu Jun 25 14:35:58 EDT 2009

Here is some new news for Roland that internetpolicyagency.com choses not to comment on:  "ICANN makes no formal News Release or Statement officially on Cybersecurity guru being named its president in order to save the contract with the DoC"

We also note that a fella by the name of Ram is now heading the infamously impotent SSAC at ICANN and that he has more conflicts than an NFL line of scrimmage.  That to date no recommendations have come out of ICANN or the SSAC after signing a cool security contract involving the largest registry/registrar in the world. That there is currently no policing provisions built into ICANNs many MOUs or subcontracts.  That currently no 3rd party has rights under any of the provisions coming from ICANN.

Of particular interest is that both Ram and Roland put forth the point of view that Governance Regulation is innapplicable to the Internet unless there are provisions specifically mentioned within the regulation naming application to the internet.  It is presumed they use this "legalistic loophole" to guide clients around regulation, thereby creating a whole cottage industry of security avoidance. 

--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

From: Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] ICANN might name former DHS cybersecurity boss itspresident?
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Eric Dierker" <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net>, "2nd address Cheryl Langdon-Orr" <langdonorr at gmail.com>
Cc: "ICANN SSAC" <ssac-liaison at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, "ICANN SSAC" <ssac at icann.org>
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 6:20 PM

Dr. Joe and all,

  Yes this is now old news, and even Congress Daily was a bit
behind the curve.  That said, in my opinion if ICANN were to
"Select" this person perhaps some security improvment that
are much needed would at some point be implimented.  Certainly
the SSAC is not up to the task currently.

Joe Baptista wrote:

>
>
> ICANN might name former DHS cybersecurity boss its president?
>
> Source: CongressDaily06/19/2009
>
> 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 ÖÐ»ªÈËÃñ¹²ºÍ¹úÐÅÏ¢²úÒµ²¿
> (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©´óÑ§.ÖÐ¹ú 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 –
> §á§â§Ö§Ù§Ú§Õ§Ö§ß§ä.§à§â§Ô – you can visit the Cesidian Root and
> use their DNS to surf. Instructions are available under the heading
> “Changing TCP/IP configuration”.
>
>
> --
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