[governance] FBI, DEA, IPv6 & ICANN

[John Curran]

Carlos - 

The short answer is that law enforcement does frequently rely
on the Whois directory (IP Whois) in order to determine which
organization should be the recipient of the subpoena or other
lawful query for information.  Service providers in the ARIN 
region are required to update the Whois directory with their 
IP address delegations to businesses in order to show sufficient 
utilization to qualify for their next IP address block.  With 
IPv4, this is a frequent occurrence and has led to a directory 
which, while imperfect, is sufficient for this task.

With IPv6, the address blocks are so large that service providers
may never need another address block, and may not go through the
effort of keeping the public Whois up-to-date.  This is a concern
that was discussed by government and law enforcement folks at the
ARIN meeting, and led to the FBI raising concern that (unless it
is otherwise addressed) IPv6 might result in degradation of the 
Whois registry which they rely upon.  The FBI did not say "Don't
deploy IPv6"; in fact, the USG has directed all agencies to make
sure that their web sites are IPv6-enabled by the end of 2012. 
The FBI simply raised a concern about a potential side effect of
IPv6 deployment, one which the community should consider in its
various policy-making efforts.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN

On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:13 PM, William Drake wrote:

> It was Thomas Narten, the IETF Liaison to the Board.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 9:26 AM, JFC Morfin wrote:
> 
>> Carlos,
>> I am not familiar with FBI and DEA meddling with IPv6 issues, nor who
>> is Tom Anders. Could you briefly bring me up to speed
>> 
>> Are you familiar with CCN (content centric networking)? I was puzzled
>> by the short note in the AoC including IP addresses as a detail of the
>> DNS. I try to understand up to where the USG plans ahead.
>> 
>> jfc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2012/6/27, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca>:
>>> Dear people,
>>> 
>>> Yesterday (jun.26) here at ICANN 44 meeting in Prague, we had a meeting
>>> of the ICANN board with the stakeholder group in which I participate
>>> (NCSG). I had the opportunity to ask the board what they thought ICANN
>>> should do about the FBI & DEA meddling in IPv6 deployment, as they
>>> (ICANN) are the planet's governance body for names, *numbers* and
>>> protocols.
>>> 
>>> ICANN's Tom Anders immediately replied ICANN has nothing to do with it.
>>> I was surprised, not only by Tom's statement, but also by the absolute
>>> silence of the board on this issue.
>>> 
>>> Just to let you know.
>>> 
>>> fraternal regards
>>> 
>>> --c.a.
>>> 
>>> 
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