Evan and all my friends, Sorry Evan the IETF IS part of the ICANN structure, and the IAB and IESG are part of the IETF structure. See:http://www.icann.org/structure/ Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Jean Armour Polly wrote:
Over the weekend, the Pakistan Telecom Authority ordered Pakistan's ISPs to block YouTube. The ISPs shared BGP (Border gateway protocol) data, which advertised routes to nowhere for YouTube. [...]
How stable is the Internet, anyway? Perhaps ALAC would like to discuss. I question whether ICANN -- and thus ALAC -- has a role in this.
I've always been conscious of vision-bloat, and we have a hard enough time churning policy that IS relevant to ICANN. The Pakistan issue, so far as I can tell, is one of abuse of the routing system, not of fraudulent or manipulative abuse of domain names.
ICANN is not IGF or IETF or WSIS; its mandate is fairly specific. Unless there is a direct relevance to ICANN policy, I don't think this is a useful forum to debate the Pakistani actions.
- Evan
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