All, Where is ICANN or the IANA/IETF on all this? Hiding of course, and seeking a new hiding place in Geneva I suspect! And for good reason I suspect. Seems that ICANN organs, the IANA, the IETF and the IAB are at least partly responsible for spreading malware and spyware. See: http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=iana.org&token=05c0ad8... http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=IETF.org&token=0500336... http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=iab.org&token=054064e4... Does this reflect a responsible organization or organizational leadership, i.e. ICANN? Doesn't seem so... It does strongly indicate that ICANN, the IETF, IAB, and the IANA badly need strong adult supervision, ergo the supervision of stakeholders/users and especially independent registrants and ISP's/IAP's. Yet the ICANN Board seemingly is blind to it's own, other very significant shortcomings. See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/25/1433207&tid=95 http://www.physorg.com/news122304766.html Such denials are horribly inconsistent with documented fact. And as the article below indicates clearly ICANN and it's organs, the IANA, the IETF, and the IAB are setting a very bad example and perhaps a very dangerous one to boot! Further: Rogue DNS servers are an http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifrgeDBfUGAvXtLH_vgVrKcm0s_wD8UPLR8O1 increasingly popular tool for scam artists, according to a new report. Their numbers are on the rise, in part because they're difficult for antivirus software to deal with. 'There are now approximately 68,000 rogue DNS servers across the Internet, The authenticity of the sites such servers redirect to varies greatly, from near-perfect copies to laughably bad, but the problem they represent is quite serious. Once an end user's computer has been modified to use a poisoned DNS server, the system can be directed to any fake web site the malware author feels like serving up.' Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k 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@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827