[governance] How to Prevent Cyber War

[Imran Ahmed Shah]

Thanks Dear Oliver for your comments, Dear McTim, do you really agree on the opinion against the rights of a country to protect them and to be aware of the threats which may be used against them just by utilizing their ccTLD name space or the internet from their region? I am in favor of providing Internet facility but I said that country should keep monitoring mass traffic source.
 
I do not think so; I am forced to think that my proposal is totally misspelled. (My English was not so bad, however if it is going to be taken in other meaning, it is necessary to define that are I am afraid of the possible cyber war). I understand that country can’t be responsible for any kind of activity from the individuals but signing a treaty or memorandum of article which may assure that the country will not going to start the war from his end. It will assure to the other countries that political or geographical governments will not involved in a mass cyber attack trough internet. This is in the benefit of the health of the internet.



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From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Sent: Tue, 2 February, 2010 15:02:54
Subject: Re: [governance] How to Prevent Cyber War

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.

<snip>

-- 
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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