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Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 19, 2008

July 19, 2008

All, Now isn't this a fine how do you do, eh? Seems our good friends in Canada are not being friendly. >:( Seems also to me anyway that the SSAC should be scolding these folks for their errant ways... See: http://www.user.dccnet.com/jonleblanc Freshly Exhumed tips us to news that Canadian ISP Rogers Cable appears to be http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2689/206/ redirecting invalid DNS requests to their own search and advertising page. Roadrunner got caught doing the same thing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253&tid=95 earlier this year. According to the article, "The hijacking appears to be an attempt by Rogers to use its Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to cash in on the mistakes of its users." Freshly Exhumed also reminds us, "As IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky has http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/isps-error-page.html warned in the past, this presents a very serious security problem." Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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Re: [At-Large] [ga] Re: Potential Danger Ahead for Registrants -- dot-info Abusive Domain Use Policy
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 18, 2008

July 18, 2008

George and all, Thanks for the update. I am sure no one is all that surprised. As usual openess and transparency as well as of course accountability has never been, nor is ever likely to be a strong suit of ICANN. Whatever appeal process is avaliable should be started soon. I doubt that Mr. Dierker, our often absent leader, will be interested in pursuing such even if the GA members are so interested. Ergo, it seems likely that other constituencies will need to get busy. Without a Registrants constituency, which has been long called for and is under some consideration by the GNSO review presently, is of course too late now to make such an appeal. Of course that was all part of the plan sense 1999. George Kirikos wrote: > Hello, > > Just to followup, it appears ICANN has approved the Afilias policy, > without even a formal public comment period: > > http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/jones-to-afilias-18jul08.pdf > > I think this might require a reconsideration request or some other > action to appeal. > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.kirikos.com/ Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten July 18, 2008

July 18, 2008

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Re: [At-Large] La vision interne au Personnel ICANN (for French speakers only)
by JFC Morfin July 17, 2008

July 17, 2008

At 18:19 17/07/2008, Franck Martin wrote: >Ils ont simplement engage une maison de traduction qui n'est pas >familier avec les termes techniques. C'est tout! >Pourquoi voir une conspiracie quand on peut voir de l'incompetence simplement. Franck, Pourquoi voir une "conspiration" ou soupçonner de l'"incompétence" dans une clarification de ce qui est évident aux anglicistes, mais l'est moins aux mono-francophones qui sont moins sensibles à l'implicite des textes ICANN qu'à leur explicite. En réseau il n'est jamais bon de se méprendre sur les états de fait et sur le fond de la pensée de ses partenaires (ex. ce que tu sembles me prêter), non-plus que d'utiliser des grands mots cela conduit à des conflits bien inutiles. C'est la première règle de la multilinguistique : il est de bonne pragmatique de ne pas sous ou sur qualifier le contexte. Cela revient à utiliser le mot juste, ce qui est plus difficile lorsque la langue est étrangère. Par exemple, le sens de "Registre" et de "Zone" actuellement au WG-IDNABIS, qui sont manifestement le point techniquement et politiquement bloquant pour les IDN, ce que ne perçoivent pas les anglophones IETF. Pas plus qu'ils ne perçoivent les difficultés qui résultent de l'absence de couche présentation, déjà lors de la simple analyse des niveaux impliqués dans un nom de domaine. Un exercice fondamental en normalisation ISO est de faire traduire chaque texte (anglais ou français) deux fois et de comparer les sémantiques des textes de départ et d'arrivée dans sa langue. Nous avons engagé un tel essais avec le Secrétariat de l'IGF et nous sommes rendus compte de la quasi-impossibilité pratique de la faire. D'où notre Projet de Terminologie multilingue pour l'internet. jfc

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Re: [At-Large] La vision interne au Personnel ICANN (for French speakers only)
by Franck Martin July 17, 2008

July 17, 2008

Ils ont simplement engage une maison de traduction qui n'est pas familier avec les termes techniques. C'est tout! Pourquoi voir une conspiracie quand on peut voir de l'incompetence simplement. Affaire suivante! 2008/7/18 jefsey <jefsey(a)jefsey.com>: > Chers amis, > je suis tombé par hasard sur ce document, qui parait expliquer bien des > choses aux francophones, en montrant, dans un contexte linguistique qui nous > est plus familier (je donne le texte original anglais), la perception que le > Personnel de l'ICANN a en fait de lui-même : > > https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/AL%202007%20SD%202%20Rev1%20Draft%20Rul… > > Le titre de ce document (traduit de l'anglais par l'ICANN) suffit à > comprendre : > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Franck Martin franck.martin(a)gmail.com http://www.peachymango.org/ "Toute connaissance est une réponse à une question" G. Bachelard

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La vision interne au Personnel ICANN (for French speakers only)
by jefsey July 17, 2008

July 17, 2008

Chers amis, je suis tombé par hasard sur ce document, qui parait expliquer bien des choses aux francophones, en montrant, dans un contexte linguistique qui nous est plus familier (je donne le texte original anglais), la perception que le Personnel de l'ICANN a en fait de lui-même : https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/AL%202007%20SD%202%20Rev1%20Draft%20Rul… Le titre de ce document (traduit de l'anglais par l'ICANN) suffit à comprendre : >ICANN >AL/2007/SD/2.Rev1 >ORIGINAL : anglais >DATE : 4 juin 2007 >STATUT : AVANT-PROJET Il s'agit donc bien d'un document interne qui n'a pas encore été revu par le LACRALO pour qui il est préparé. Il n'a donc d'autre valeur que d'indiquer quel est l'état d'esprit du traducteur en fonction de sa connaissance reçue du personnel de l'ICANN. >Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet Je pensais que c'était "Société Internet des Noms et Adresses attribués ". Il y a une certaine différence. >Série de documents des propositions du personnel 2007 "2007 Staff Proposals Document Series" Nous voyons bien là qui propose. >COMMUNAUTÉ DES Utilisateurs "at-large community" Nous avons là une reconnaissance claire que les "At Larges" sont tous les utilisateurs en général et donc bien les utilisateurs pilotes autant que les utilisateurs finaux. Nous avons donc là une opposition claire entre la politique et les règles intérieures (ByLaws) de l'ICANN et les demandes de l'ISOC (un internet "user centric" et non "peripheric at-larges"). >PROJET DE RÈGLES DE PROCÉDURE ORDINAIRES POUR LES SÉANCES DES >ASSEMBLÉES DÉLIBÉRANTES DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ "draft ordinary rules of procedure for meetings of deliberative bodies of the community" Intéressant de voir confirmer que le seul propos reconnu à la communauté des utilisateurs est de "délibérer" en vase clos, et non de "conseiller" comme certains pouvaient encore le croire. >préparé par le personnel de l'ICANN et le secrétariat du LACRALO. "prepared by the ICANN Staff and the Secretariat of LACRALO" Egalement de voir que ce texte n'a pas été préparé par le personnel du secrétariat du LACRALO, mais par le "personnel de l'ICANN" en tant qu'autorité immanente dont la campagne en cours (IIC) nous demande de confirmer la captation de l'ICANN. Ceci met mieux en lumière que ce qui nous est demandé est de conforter le contrôle du monde par le personnel de l'ICANN. Cela fait longtemps que j'explique que l'ICANN est seulement le "netkeeper" d'une partie de nos ressources, je ne pensais pas que l'on en viendrait si vite à ce que la Chaise PDT (Peter Dungate Trush) accepte l'idée de donner la signature en blanc au majordome DPT (Dr. Paul Twomey) pour la gestion de l'entreréseau. Au fait, c'est quoi un entreréseau, à part la contre-partie française d'un terme employé, mais non défini par la Loi. Le règne des employés. jfc

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Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Post-Paris Review
by Evan Leibovitch July 17, 2008

July 17, 2008

JFC Morfin wrote: > At 17:37 16/07/2008, Ross Rader wrote: >> Evan Leibovitch wrote: >> > The apparent staff obsession to fund constituencies that don't >> need the >> > subsidy, at the expense of those who do, is what I consider >> worrisome. >> >> I don't see this as a staff push. My slightly uninvolved view is that >> this emanates mostly from the GNSO Council where constituency interests >> contend that their work is so important that they absolutely must have >> travel funding. Perhaps Alan could shed some better light on the issue, >> as I've not been directly involved in the Council for the better part of >> a year. > > May be a stupid question, but what has GNSO to do with ALAC? > 90% of the ALAC concerns are out of the GNSO scope. I think his point is that the constituencies that make up GNSO -- most of which already have financial motivations to be involved -- are whining that they want a piece of the travel pie. After all, if RALO chairs and secretariats qualify for funding, certainly the International Chamber of Commerce deserves funding too; it's only fair. Or so the story goes. - Evan

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Post-Paris Review
by Wendy Seltzer July 16, 2008

July 16, 2008

Hi Folks, Evan asked us to send Paris meeting retrospectives, so here's mine (to NA and ALAC): The Paris meeting was officially scheduled Mon-Thurs, with GNSO Council meetings beginning Saturday and Board workshop Sunday. This was a day shorter than previous meetings, and I found the truncation materially cut into the time to meet for hallway conversation and move among constituencies, which is, to my mind, the most valuable part of the face-to-face In addition, I was in board meetings for much of the time and so unable to attend much of the ALAC meeting. Topic areas: new gTLDs, including IDN Fast Track GNSO reform ALAC review Summit/travel policy The meeting saw important, but over-hyped progress on new gTLDs. The Board approved the GNSO's complex procedure, complete with the grounds for objection on "morality" and "lack of community support" grounds to which ALAC has voiced its objection. I thank NA members, among others, for their work in drafting a statement I could reference in my comments about the flaws in this policy. Whatever happens, this will hardly be "the greatest expansion of the Internet in 40 years," as an early version of the ICANN PR crowed. There is also movement on the IDN-CC fast-track. The Board held off voting on the GNSO restructuring, giving constituencies and liaised groups a 30-day deadline to reach consensus on alternatives. I hope we'll get reports from Alan on the status of these discussions The consultants gave their report on the ALAC Review. Many of us disagreed with their fact-gathering, analysis, and conclusions! I hope we'll put those into constructive suggestions to the Board ALAC Review Working Group. The Board resolved to support the ALAC summit, remarking at the same time that ALAC's overall funding levels were being reviewed in the new travel policy. If we have comments on travel policy and funding, we need to make those heard. Thanks, and comments welcome! --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org Visiting Professor, American University Washington College of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/

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RAA Amendments Consultation
by At-Large Staff July 16, 2008

July 16, 2008

Dear All: FYI, with respect to the RAA Consultation, as I mentioned to many of you in Paris, the documents are being translated now and should be ready shortly. Beau, the lead on ALAC for the RAA Working Group, has asked that a briefing be scheduled for the members of the WG and we are working on arranging this at present. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 16, 2008

July 16, 2008

All, especially Vint, Well Vint, seems yet again Google has proven their disregard for your users privacy and security. Bad show, IMO! Thanks allot for propagating even more UCE/Spam there Vint! >:( < sarcasm intended > Oh yes, and BTW Vint, now that this errant mistake has surfaced, how long to you think it is going to be before technical terrorist or organized Internet crime groups are going to exploit it? My guess is, it's already too late... Second question Vint: Why in the HELL don't you folks at Google test out your code vigorously BEFORE you release it to the public? You of all people should know better. See: Have you ever wanted to know the name of admin(a)gmail.com? Now you can. Through a bug in Google calendars http://blog.holdenkarau.com/2008/07/gaping-whole-in-gmail-privacy.html the names of all registered Gmail accounts are now readily available. All you need to find out the names of any gmail address is a Google calendar account yourself. Depending on your view this ranges from a harmless "feature" to a rather serious privacy violation. According to some reports, spammers are already exploiting this "feature"/bug to send personalized spam messages. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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