May 2010 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten May 28, 2010

May 28, 2010

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Fwd: [ccnso-council] APWG report on worldwide phishing
by Rudi Vansnick May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Please find herewith the Anti Phishing Working Group report written by Greg Aaron and Rod Rasmussen, which I received on the ccNSO mailinglist. Rudi Vansnick <-------------- Internet Society Belgium ----------------> President - CEO Tel +32/(0)9/329.39.16 rudi.vansnick(a)isoc.be Mobile +32/(0)475/28.16.32 Dendermondesteenweg 143 B-9070 Destelbergen BELGIUM <- http://www.internetsociety.be "The Internet is for everyone"-> Begin doorgestuurd bericht: > Van: Gabriella Schittek <gabriella.schittek(a)icann.org> > Datum: 25 mei 2010 05:46:08 GMT+02:00 > Aan: "cctldcommunity(a)cctld-managers.org" <cctldcommunity(a)cctld-managers.org>, ccNSO Members <ccnso-members(a)icann.org> > Kopie: ccNSO Council <ccnso-council(a)icann.org> > Onderwerp: [ccnso-council] APWG report on worldwide phishing > > Dear all, > > The Anti Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released an update to their phishing survey report. See email below and attachment for more information. > > Kind regards, > > Gabi > > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Rod Rasmussen <rod.rasmussen(a)internetidentity.com> > Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:08:57 -0700 > To: Chris Disspain <ceo(a)auda.org.au>, Gabriella Schittek <gabriella.schittek(a)icann.org> > Cc: Greg Aaron <gaaron(a)afilias.info> > Subject: APWG report on worldwide phishing - 2009 recap - one major phisher > > > I wanted to let you know that we have released an update to our Global Phishing Survey in conjunction with the APWG meeting this month in Brazil. We received a great deal of attention on this report due to the prevalence of Avalanche phishing attacks, and have fielded many requests for information and interviews. This single group (Avalanche) accounted for an amazing two-thirds of all phishing in the second half of 2009! There are some valuable lessons learned there, and an important "good news" story from the response that the entire community had in fighting this series of attacks. Please feel free to distribute this to your members and direct any questions to myself and/or Greg Aaron. > > Highlights of the study include: > > 1. The Avalanche phishing gang was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks launched in 2H2009. However, Avalanche changed its activities significantly in November 2009, and now has a different modus operandi and greatly reduced scale. > > 2. In 2H2009, the average uptime of all phishing attacks continued to drop from previous periods. Unfortunately, non-Avalanche phish stayed up noticeably longer in 2H2009 than they did in 1H2009. > > 3. The amount of Internet domain names and numbers used for phishing has remained fairly steady. > > 4. The great majority of phishing continued to be concentrated in certain namespaces -- just five top-level domains (TLDs). > > 5. Phishers are not leveraging the unique characteristics of internationalized domain names (IDNs). > > 6. Phishers continue to use subdomain services to host and manage phishing sites. > > > > Best Regards and Cheers! > > Rod > > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten May 21, 2010

May 21, 2010

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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten May 14, 2010

May 14, 2010

Total of 20 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri May 14 00:53:07 EDT 2010 Messages | Bytes | Who --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 10.00% | 2 | 11.68% | 19869 | carlton.samuels at gmail.com 10.00% | 2 | 10.80% | 18380 | baptista at publicroot.org 10.00% | 2 | 8.87% | 15091 | evan at telly.org 10.00% | 2 | 8.12% | 13821 | cdel at firsthand.net 5.00% | 1 | 12.33% | 20981 | dthompson at gov.nu.ca 10.00% | 2 | 6.73% | 11445 | franck.martin at gmail.com 5.00% | 1 | 7.25% | 12336 | langdonorr at gmail.com 5.00% | 1 | 7.23% | 12297 | vanda at uol.com.br 5.00% | 1 | 5.99% | 10184 | jipshida at gmail.com 5.00% | 1 | 4.68% | 7968 | patrick at vande-walle.eu 5.00% | 1 | 3.61% | 6145 | karl at cavebear.com 5.00% | 1 | 3.51% | 5967 | lutz at iks-jena.de 5.00% | 1 | 3.15% | 5356 | narten at us.ibm.com 5.00% | 1 | 3.12% | 5299 | sebastien at bachollet.com 5.00% | 1 | 2.92% | 4970 | johnl at iecc.com --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 100.00% | 20 |100.00% | 170109 | Total

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ICANN and .XXX -- the story behind the story
by Evan Leibovitch May 13, 2010

May 13, 2010

Longtime advocate and NARALO member John Levine has written a concise and elequent piece<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100508_the_real_issue_about_icann_and_xxx/>on the real problems behind ICANN's handling of .XXX. I don't think I've read anything that I could more recommend to someone working within ICANN's policy process. In the context of this I must express my utter disgust at the way ALAC has let down its community on this issue. Its position on .XXX was "we don't care how you resolve it, but please do it quickly". Such a position agonises about the speed of the process, not how it was done nor in what direction to take it moving forward. NARALO took a strong position in favour of accepting the application for .XXX, but ALAC rejected that for its own and left the NARALO statement dangling as an appendix rather than putting forth the divergent approaches within its own position. This is not only sad, but it is the first complete direliction of duty by ALAC that I've witnessed since I've become involved in ICANN. I was told that ALAC members jumped on the part of the NARALO statement that many considered this to be a freedom of speech issue, and it seemed that this was a convenient excuse to ignore all of the other valid reasons why ALAC should have demanded ICANN follow its own rules and allow the domain. I understand that the term "freedom of speech" is a non-starter in many places around the world, and ALAC is a global body. But striking that element, there are the fundamental points that: 1) The role of governing content lies with the registry, not ICANN 2) Porn will exist on the Internet, in much the same amount, with or without .XXX 3) XXX is a euphemism anyway (amongst other things it's the name of beers in Canada and Australia, a 2002 non-porn action movie, and an American brand of soda) 4) (MOST IMPORTANTLY) ICM did everything that ICANN asked it to and played by the rules By not taking ICANN to task for its treatment of ICM, ALAC has shirked its responsibility to hold ICANN accountable for not following its own painfully-crafted rules, in one of the few really important things it's mandated to do. The new Accountability and Transparency working group -- of which Cheryl is the lone voice for the billions of Internet users -- met this past week amidst much hype. The ALAC Skype chat vacuumed in anyone with a skype account whose name anyone knew, willing or not, even many who'd never spend a nanosecond working with At-Large before. (I received private Skype messages from people asking "why the hell am I here"). Everyone was being asked to hang on every word of the meeting audio stream as if ICANN's very existence depended upon it. This was a lurking blitz of unprecedented proportion -- if only such engagement happened for ALAC processes! Yet I have serious concerns that it's all for show. We have many, many examples in our own experiences of how ICANN just tends to go its own way -- it finds a constituency that agrees with what it wanted to do and latches on to that. How many of the clear and specific requests coming out of the At-Large Summit have been responded to at all, let alone in a manner that satisfies the needs of ICANN's global community of users? Who has followed up? Is there any reason to believe that ICANN will do anything besides look at the list of recommendations of this over-hyped A&T committee, loudly enable the ones that don't really affect operations, while briefly acknowledging -- and then mangling or deferring or silently forgetting about -- the others? There have been accusations that ICANN staff drives the show and generally does what it wants regardless of public good. Many of these accusations have merit. But the ICANN Board has the ability to reign this in and has never had the courage to do so. So I don't fully blame staff for just doing what it can get away with. ALAC had, for one brief moment here, the chance to stand up and beg the ICANN Board to show such courage for once -- instead it offered a(nother) free pass, a bland motion that begs to be ignored. It's a tacit statement that not only does ICANN have nothing to to atone for in breaking its own rules, but that it did nothing wrong. One comment on the wiki even admonished against "rushing into a pro-.XXX stance". All ALAC seems to care about is that the mess -- regardless of how it got there or how it's resolved -- is cleaned up quickly. It's one thing for ICANN to ignore its community -- sometimes I just think of that as "ICANN being ICANN". But it's truly distressing when ALAC mimics the ICANN Board by itself showing cowardice in the face of challenge. We're better than that, I like to think. - Evan

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Russian IGF
by Sébastien Bachollet May 12, 2010

May 12, 2010

Veni Markovski send this link to various lists asking for share: http://russia2010.intgov.net/eng/program.php I am please to do so. I hope that some of the participants will have EUralo and At-Large documentation to outreach new ALSs in Russia. All the best Sébastien Bachollet <mailto:sebastien@bachollet.com> sebastien(a)bachollet.com +33 6 07 66 89 33

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DNSSEC and geopolitics
by Franck Martin May 11, 2010

May 11, 2010

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/05/09/1939222/DNSSEC-and-the-Geopolit… Interesting talks were at http://www.sfbayisoc.org/INETSF2010...

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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

Total of 2 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri May 7 00:53:03 EDT 2010 Messages | Bytes | Who --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 50.00% | 1 | 64.86% | 10430 | joly at punkcast.com 50.00% | 1 | 35.14% | 5652 | narten at us.ibm.com --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 100.00% | 2 |100.00% | 16082 | Total

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ISOC-NY EVENT: dot nyc – How are we doing? May 8 @ NYU
by Joly MacFie May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

[Final reminder - live webcast available - please forward widely!] Last October the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) issued a request for proposals for "services to obtain, manage, administer, maintain and market the geographic Top Domain name .nyc.". At ICANN’s recent 37th meeting in Nairobi, consensus was reached on the "overarching" issue of intellectual property protection. This leaves only the issue of the final (4th) draft of the Applicants Guidebook, expected before the 38th meeting in Brussels in June 2010, before the much delayed new generic top level domain (gTLD) delegation process can finally grind into action. (One caveat - a policy forbidding cross-ownership of registries and registrars is still not totally set in stone.) The Internet Society - New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) has for some years been following the .nyc and ICANN process on behalf of the NYC community and will, on May 8 2010, host a symposium "dot nyc - How are we doing?" at NYU. At 1pm NYC Council Member Gale Brewer will deliver keynote remarks, then Vendor Eric Brunner-Williams of CORE Internet Council of Registrars will reveal details of their proposal to the City, and Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines earlier comments to the City Council concerning their proposal will be shown in video. After a break there will be a discussion "What’s it for?" about possible applications - civic, community, commercial, and "outside the box" - for a local top level domain. Speakers include Tom Lowenhaupdt of Connecting .nyc and Richard Knipel of Wikimedia NYC. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| What: ISOC-NY Event: dot nyc - How are we doing? When: Saturday May 8 2010 : 1pm - 4:30pm EST (1700-2030 UTC) Where: Warren Weaver Hall NYU Rm102, 250 Mercer St, NY 10012 Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free. Webcast: http://livestream.com/isocny Sponsors: ISOC-NY; GatewaytoGov.org (webcast) Meetup: http://internetpro.meetup.com/51/calendar/13100813/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108703639164601 Event homepage: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1515 * Remote participation will be through the livestream chatroom. Schedule: Start 1pm Keynote: Gale A. Brewer Session 1 - How is it going to work? Eric Brunner Williams - CORE Antony Van Couvering - Minds + Machines (on video) Session 2 - What’s it for? Tom Lowenhaupdt - Connecting .nyc Richard Knipel - Wikimedia NYC Discussion. Curfew: 4.30pm ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Gale Brewer Council Member Gale A. Brewer has been representing the Upper West Side and Upper Clinton in the New York City Council since 2002. Gale chaired the Committee on Technology in Government from 2002-2009, in which she continues to sit. She currently chairs the Committee on Governmental Operations. http://council.nyc.gov/d6/html/members/home.shtml Eric Brunner-Williams Eric is Chief Technical Officer for CORE, an international not-for-profit membership association of Internet domain name registrars. As such he is responsible for the technical correctness of CORE’s new TLD applications. Previous TLD applications he has contributed technical content to, on behalf of several clients, are .CAT, .ORG, .BIZ,.US, .COOP, and .MUSEUM. Eric was one of the principle contributors to the IETF’s PROVREG Working Group which wrote the EPP RFC series. Eric leads a gTLD project for Native American and Indigenous Peoples, and is an active member in the extended California and Oklahoma Cherokee, and Maine Abenaki communities. http://www.corenic.org/en Antony Van Couvering Antony is CEO of Minds + Machines, a registry services and consulting company for new TLDs. Antony has been working with domain names since he founded Netnames USA in 1997. He started three domain name companies (NetNames USA, RegisterFREE, and NameEngine) and later sold them, the last one to VeriSign. He also started up several ccTLDs, including .TM, .BT, .AS and others. http://www.mindsandmachines.com/ Tom Lowenhaupt Tom’s involvement with Internet governance began with comments he filed on the NTIA’s 1998 Internet governance NPRM. He is a former long time member of Community Board 15 in Queens, where the idea of the establishment of a .nyc TLD as a public resouce was first mooted in 2001. In April 2007, invigorated by similar efforts in other international cities, he formed ‘Connecting .nyc‘, a non-profit that has been working since then to assure that the delegation and operation of any such domain be in the the public interest of the NYC community. http://connectingnyc.org/ Richard Knipel Richard is President of Wikimedia New York City, an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City ISOC-NY ISOC-NY is the Greater New York Metropolitan Area chapter of the Internet Society. Founded in 1997 ISOC-NY is a 501c3 Charitable Organization dedicated to assure the beneficial, open evolution of the global Internet, to promote local initiatives, and to maximize the societal benefits which the Internet can bring to the New York area. ISOC_NY is an At-Large Structure in the North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO), and also a member of the Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC). http://isoc-ny.org/ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast Secretary - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org ---------------------------------------------------------------

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