[governance] US's oversight role

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

How much do you participate in the ICANN process parminder? I would have thought you would need to actively participate in any process at all, to understand it to any significant degree.

Just curious.

--srs (iPad)

On 06-Sep-2013, at 12:17, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> 
> 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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