Nov. 20, 2015
8:05 p.m.
Eric: The interdiction of Conficker registrations was not facilitated or made possible by ICANN contracts. Indeed, no one was contractually bound to do so, the cooperation that the Conficker WG got in that instance was voluntary. And even if it wasn't, it dealt directly with domain name registrations, not with services that happen to use domains.
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Were we mistaken to have interdicted the .C variant's use of domain names as rendezvous points, its reconstitution infrastructure, or was our action correct?
Did contracts protect our conduct, or national law?
If neither is sufficient, what else could permit us to interpose on some distributed system?