[WSIS CS-Plenary] [IGP Announce] IGP News

Fri Aug 29 22:27:58 BST 2008

August 29, 2008

Ill-advised stampede to deploy DNSSEC at the root?

Survey shows support for IPv4 address transfers

IGF Advisory Group Renewed, Expanded

Internet rights should be more prominent in IGF

The FCC Comcast decision and Net Neutrality

IGP Paper to be presented at ITU Workshop on IPv6

IGP at IGF Open Consultation

Internet governance highlighted at 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC)

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* Ill-advised stampede to deploy DNSSEC at the root? - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36495936&f=175425&u=11399690

Lost in the media excitement surrounding the Kaminsky variant cache poisoning attack and ongoing frenzy to patch vulnerable recursive nameservers, the calls for DNSSEC as the only complete solution to similar attacks and the accusations by the technical community that the DoC was dragging its feet in approving root signing, and the order issued by the OMB to deploy DNSSEC in gov by January 2009, was this letter last week from ICANN to NTIA regarding their intention to submit a detailed proposal concerning signing the root to the Department this month. 

In it, ICANN argued that â€œfull deployment of DNSSEC would be a solution to these vulnerabilitiesâ€ and that â€œthe first step in attaining this solution is making specific plans for, then implementing DNSSEC at the root level.â€ While you wonâ€™t find much disagreement among the technical community on the first issue (although there is plenty of work occurring on easier to implement, but temporary fixes), it should be obvious that the second assertion is debatable. Simply put, if the root were signed tomorrow, the vast majority of the DNS would still be unsecure for a long time to come. Numerous improvements would still need to be undertaken by registries, registrars, ISPs, and software providers to achieve a globally meaningful secure DNS. Sure signing the root could provide a signal to the market to begin deploying, but in no way is it a required â€œfirst step.â€ There is a massive amount of work still to be done. 

And besides, there are temporary, completely feasible alternatives to signing the root that would achieve the same goal. For instance, an IANA-run ITAR. Such a solution would similarly signal the market to begin DNSSEC deployment activities, but would avoid further strengthening of the DNS bottleneck while the appropriate technical and political solutions for distributing signing authority can be found.

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* Survey shows support for IPv4 address transfers - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36484771&f=175425&u=11399690

As we run out of IPv4 addresses, should the Regional Internet Registries allow address blocks to be traded? In a paper released last month, we argued that a liberalized transfer policy would serve a number of important purposes. Transfer policy proposals are quite controversial, however. In an attempt to gauge levels of support, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has taken a survey of its public policy mailing list. About 200 people responded. Overall, the survey found that 87% of the respondents supported a liberalized transfer policy of some kind. It is a level of support much larger than one would have anticipated from the debates on the lists, which seem to have been dominated by vocal opponents.

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* IGF Advisory Group Renewed, Expanded - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36484772&f=175425&u=11399690

The IGFâ€™s Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) has been renewed, adding 17 new appointments, which brings the total number of advisers up to 50. We provide a quick review of the new appointees.

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* Internet rights should be more prominent in IGF - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36484775&f=175425&u=11399690

Thereâ€™s some concern that basic human rights to free expression, privacy, and other civil liberties might be getting pushed too far away from the center of the UN Internet Governance Forumâ€™s (IGF) meeting agenda. The IGF will meet in Hyderabad, India the first week of December this year, and the Secretariat has just published a draft agenda. The agenda is very heavy on security concerns and weak on individual rights protection. A coalition of groups promoting an â€œInternet bill of rightsâ€ has sent a letter to the Secretariat complaining that â€œrather than promoting positive discussion about how to expand the opportunities that the Internet offers for realizing our fundamental rights and freedoms as enshrined in international law, the title of the main security theme plays on negativity and fear of the Internet.â€ That letter was endorsed by the civil society Internet Governance Caucus, which IGP participates in.

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* The FCC Comcast decision and Net Neutrality - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36484773&f=175425&u=11399690

Wednesday the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released the text of its Order sanctioning Comcast, a U.S. provider of broadband Internet access over cable lines, for selectively targeting and interfering with connections of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. The Commission concluded "Although Comcast asserts that its conduct is necessary to ease network congestion, we conclude that the companyâ€™s discriminatory and arbitrary practice unduly squelches the dynamic benefits of an open and accessible Internet and does not constitute reasonable network management."

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* IGP Paper to be presented at ITU Workshop on IPv6 - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36484765&f=175425&u=11399690

Milton Mueller will present (via webcast) the paper "Scarcity in IP addresses: IPv4 Address Transfer Markets and the Regional Internet Address Registries" at an upcoming ITU Workshop on IPv6. The presentation is scheduled for Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 14:15 UTC (10:15 EST) during Session 3: "Economic dimension of IPv6 adoption. What is at stake?" A link to the webcast will be posted here on the day of the workshop. The draft agenda is available here.

The workshop, to be held 4 â€” 5 September in Geneva, Switzerland, will provide a platform for dialogue where key players in the field, including all ITU sectors, as well as other interested entities will be able to discuss and address international public policy issues on the migration to IPv6, as well as the economic aspects related to IP address allocation. It is designed to stimulate discussion and interaction with the audience, rather than a string of presentations and speeches provided by panelists and speakers. 

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* IGP at IGF Open Consultation - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36484767&f=175425&u=11399690

IGP's Milton Mueller, Jeanette Hoffman and Brenden Kuerbis will be attending the Internet Governance Forum open consultations that will take place on 16 September, in room XIX in the Palais des Nations. These consultations will be followed by a meeting of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) on 17-18 September. View the meeting agenda.

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* Internet governance highlighted at 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC) - http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36484766&f=175425&u=11399690

Several papers on Internet governance will be presented during the 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), which will be held September 26 - September 28, 2008 at The National Center for Technology & Law, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA. IGP's Milton Mueller will be moderating the "The Future of Internet Addressing" session (Saturday 2:00 PM EST) and Brenden Kuerbis will be presenting a paper, "Regional Address Registries: The New Center of Global Internet Governance" (Sunday 11:10 AM). In addition, there will be panels Friday on Jon Zittrain's recent book and the "Future of the Internet Economy: Developing a Medium Term Policy Research Agenda," as well as work presented on Saturday looking at the "Internet and Fundamental Human Rights" as well as "The Political Economy of Internet Governance." View the entire program.

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