RE: [ga] Mr. Qaddafi Salutes Verisign

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Marc,

That sort of makes the problem worse. It means that the root-zone can't even
carry references to LY and others. There are serious implications for TLD
policy there. Carrying LY, with non-functional NS entries is more aggresive
than simply not having them there, even as place-holders. If the latter,
then those countries could easily use inclusive-root techniques to create
their own root server network (which they probably already do anyway.

Those concerning themselves with security aspects of this might want to know
that not having a publically visible DNS entry does not technically prohibit
one from being on the Internet. However, blocking all packets in/out of
those countries does. Even so, snaking a fiber bundle across a border, to a
friendly/oblivious neighbor, adequately gets around that problem as well.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Marc Schneiders [mailto:marc@fuchsia.bijt.net]
|> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:23 AM
|> To: John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D.
|> Cc: [GA]
|> Subject: Re: [ga] Mr. Qaddafi Salutes Verisign
|> 
|> 
|> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote:
|> 
|> > The issue goes well beyond the registrars and to ICANN 
|> itself.  Under
|> > recently-described contracting principles for ccTLDs, it 
|> would appear that
|> > ICANN has every intention of entering into direct 
|> negotiations with the
|> > Libyan government over continued delegation of the .ly ccTLD.
|> >
|> > The Iraqi ccTLD, incidentally, is not an issue, as it was 
|> not delegated to
|> > any institution in Iraq and is not maintained by or on 
|> behalf of any Iraqi
|> > organization.
|> 
|> The solution is of course not to see the ccTLDs as being 'in 
|> the hands' of
|> the US gov or its contractor ICANN. Why would they be?
|> 
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