FC: More on interview with Karl Auerbach: "ICANN is out of control!"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 06:50:38 -0800
To: declan () well com
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman () proper com>
Subject: Re: FC: Interview with Karl Auerbach: "ICANN is out of control!"

> October's distributed, denial-of-service attack against the domain name
> system--the most serious yet, in which seven of the thirteen DNS roots were
> cut off from the Internet

Exciting lead. Too bad it is completely wrong. None were cut off, and none 
stopped responding to requests. Also, it is unrelated to ICANN, who 
physically and technically controls only one of the root servers.

> The security of DNS
> is on ICANN's watch.

This write obviously never talked to a root server operator. None of them 
are looking to ICANN for security advice. They are independent.

>  Why is it so susceptible to attack, when the Internet
> as a whole is touted as being able to withstand nuclear Armageddon?

No one with any sense has ever said that.

--Paul Hoffman





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