[governance] How to Prevent Cyber War

[McTim]

Imran,

I agree with Olivier and Siva.  This is an idea that is in driect
opposition to our notions of a Free and Open Internet.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> wrote:

<snip>

> Today anyone can obtain any kind of domain name and can host it anywhere
> that may be accessible from any other corner of the world.

And that is how it should remain.

Similarly
> Internet is accessible to every one.

Well, it should be, but many billions do not have access.  In some
countries, you can be denied access to the Internet as well.

China has decline the google claim that
> they are not involved in such kind of attack on Google. Well, but China has
> to take care about the domain registrations with .cn ccTLD and all Data
> Centers of the country.

You don't need to own a domain name to launch a cyber attack.

>
> China and Google is the first case but I would like to recommend to
> Government Authorities, ICT Policy makers/implementers, and Stakeholders of
> each country to STOP issuance of new domain names (registrations) with their
> ccTLD name space and hosting-services from their data-centers to
> non-citizens immediately.

I am an US citizen, living in Kenya. Why would you restrict my ability
(right) to launch a business or hobby website in the .ke namespace.

In Kenya, hosting is relatively expensive, so people host in the USA.
Why make Africans spend more money than they need to to host a domain?

 Second step is to re-evaluate the existing domain
> names & hosting and formulate a methodology to constantly monitoring and
> record the internet traffic to and from existing ccTLD domain names (hosted
> inland). These actions will prevent misuse of ccTLD name space and protect
> the nations pulling into the cyber war.

No, they won't.  See above.  Neither a web host nor a domain name is
needed to launch a cyber attack.

 If they found any misuse or moderate
> traffic from a domain, immediately the information has to be passed to the
> UN communications and technology agency.

I'm all in favor of listing hosts who spew malware, but what could the
ITU do about it?  They have no powers of enforcement, nor should they.

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-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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