Good question. I can envisage how this will improve the ability to deal with broad cyber security threats, but like I’m unclear whether it will directly impact some of the DNS security issues that are currently dealt with closer to ICANN. Tony From: owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of WUKnoben Sent: 17 October 2013 15:34 To: ispcp@icann.org Subject: [ispcp] Fw: [Soac-infoalert] Fwd: [policy] Fwd: Indian Center for DNS SecurityAnnounced FYI. How will this get connected with the community needs, e.g. re name collisions? Best regards Wolf-Ulrich From: David Olive <mailto:david.olive@icann.org> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 8:38 AM To: soac-infoalert@icann.org Subject: [Soac-infoalert] Fwd: [policy] Fwd: Indian Center for DNS SecurityAnnounced Image removed by sender. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 October 2013 Indian Center for DNS Security Announced ICANN and CDAC will launch research center to thwart security threats to Domain Name System New Delhi, India… ICANN today announced, in partnership with the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), plans to coordinate on the creation of a Center of Excellence in Domain Name System Security in India. The Center of Excellence is anticipated to work alongside ICANN security staff to design research projects intended to solve critical Domain Name System (DNS) security issues, such as thwarting cyber attacks. The center is also envisioned to be home to a state-of-the-art research laboratory to evaluate and test security solutions. “This center will play a central role in ensuring the security and stability of the Domain Name System,” said Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer. “The Internet has become one of the world’s most valued resources and it is deserves nothing less than full global cooperation and collaboration in developing concrete solutions to combat threats to the DNS.” Fadi Chehadé, along with Dr. Rajat Moona, Director General of CDAC, will sign a letter of intent regarding the building of the center during a signing ceremony at the Internet, Mobile & Digital Economy Conference (IMDEC) IMDEC is a conference organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in association with the Ministry of Communications and IT. The topic of the conference is Internet to Equinet: Empowering a Billion OnLine”. Minister Kapil Sibal, Indian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, will oversee the signing ceremony. The Center for Development of Advanced Computing is the research and development arm of India’s Department of Electronics and Information Technology, a part of India’s Ministry of Communications & Information Technology. ### For more information about FICCI, please visit: http://www.ficci.com/events-page.asp?evid=21654 For more information about the Center for Development of Advanced Computing, please visit: http://cdac.in/ MEDIA CONTACTS: James Cole ICANN Global Media Coordinator Washington, D.C. Tel. +1 202.570.7240 james.cole@icann.org Andrew Robertson Edelman Public Relations London, U.K. Tel. + 44 (7811) 341 945 andrew.robertson@edelman.com About ICANN: ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: <http://www.icann.org/> www.icann.org. _____ _______________________________________________ soac-infoalert mailing list soac-infoalert@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/soac-infoalert
