[governance] US's oversight role

[parminder]

BTW, I think people do know that ICANN needs US government's clearance 
(or is it, advice) to appoint its Chief Security Officer, and the 
current incumbent continues to be  a 'sworn member' of the US 
government's Homeland Security Advisory Committee...

No offence intended, but does not give me too much confidence.

I also understand that ICANN is right now involved in various kind of 
issues related to securitisation of DNS and routing ....

parminder

On Friday 06 September 2013 11:32 AM, parminder wrote:
>
>         Cryptographers have long suspected that the agency (NSA)
>         planted vulnerabilities in a standard adopted in 2006 by the
>         National Institute of Standards and Technology and later by
>         the International Organization for Standardization, which has
>         163 countries as members.
>
>         Classified N.S.A. memos appear to confirm that the fatal
>         weakness, discovered by two Microsoft cryptographers in 2007,
>         was engineered by the agency. The N.S.A. wrote the standard
>         and aggressively pushed it on the international group,
>         privately calling the effort “a challenge in finesse.”
>
>         “Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole editor,” the memo says.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&
>
> This is the government to which we have entrusted the oversight of 
> some essential infrastructural features of the Internet.
>
> Continuing on the subject of 'time to get real....'.
>
> parminder
>

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