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ICANN Wants Immunity

Posted by kdawson on from the divine-right-of-the-Commerce-Department dept.

rprins writes "In what is perhaps a reaction to recent Homeland Security demands, a strategic report by ICANN suggests that it should take on the model of a private international organization (PDF). That would make ICANN immune from US law and regulations. However, it's unlikely that the Bush administration would grant ICANN these privileges. So the organization might opt to relocate to Switzerland where such privileges are easier to attain."

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  1. Re:Good. by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Mind you, I wouldn't trust any other country more. Independence from national issues is pretty much the only solution.

    Given ICANN's checkered past, are you sure you would trust an independent ICANN?

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  2. DNSSEC keys by John.P.Jones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is all about the recent request for access to the DNSSEC root keys. As a firm proponent of DNSSEC I agree, In ACSAC 2005 I published a paper proposing the IKS (Internet Key Service) a distributed domain-name based certificate authority grounded in DNSSEC and the sole authority of ICANN to assign domains. A functionally deployed DNSSEC would allow us to bootstrap strong end-to-end cryptography. Allowing the US government to spoof DNS entries would seriously impair DNSSEC and greatly damage my work.