[ncdnhc-discuss] modified res on sec&stab

[Alejandro Pisanty - CUAED y FQ, UNAM]

Hi!

considering proposals on the list and the evolution of events, here is a
modified proposed resolution on security and stability for the Marina del
Rey meeting in Nov. 2001. I did include the call to recognize the
distributed and decentralized character of the Internet. A second proposal
was made to make specific calls to parts of the ICANN process; since this
was already included in my original proposal I have left it there, in
recognition of the call made on the NCDNHC list.

The draft as it stands now reads:


>
>I move to consider and, after appropriate procedure, pass the following
>resolution:
>
>The recent, tragic events and their fallout have heightened the need to
>assess the stability and security of the Internet's centrally coordinated
>resources, and also of the need of strong international cooperation for
>this purpose regardless of the lucrative or non-commercial nature of all
>organizations active and dependent on the Internet.

The Internet's robust design, based among other factors in its
distributed, decentralized nature, necessitates the central coordination
of a few resources, of which domain names, Internet addresses, and
protocol parameters are within the purview and responsibility of ICANN as
an internationally operating and directed, self-regulatory body.

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>The non-commercial organizations and entities which are represented in the
>Non-Commercial Domain-Name Holders Constituency (NCDNHC) of ICANN's DNSO
may stand to suffer disruptions in their
>functioning from a variety of disruptions in the operations of the DNS and
>the allocation processes for domain names and IP addresses, from which
>the expense and work of recovery may be much less available than for
>large, commercial organizations.
>
>While a significant portion of the non-commercial interests in the DNS and
>IP allocation system is embodied in universities and research institutes
>with high levels of technical expertise around the world, many other
>non-commercial organizations have very limited financial and technical
>resources to reroute around or recover from a crisis, and to train for
its prevention and recovery.
>
>Also, the expertise embodied in non-commercial organizations is frequently
>made available to a wider community by publications and advice and not
>protected from public access to secure proprietary interests or knowledge,
>so academic and other non-commercial organizations may become optimal
>poles for the diffusion of knowledge referred to threats to the stability
>and security of the systems under ICANN's purview and the ways to avoid
>such threats and the damage that could result from their materialization.
>
>Therefore the NCDNHC calls upon the Names Council, the ASO, the PSO, and
>the ICANN Board, to promptly assess the threats to the stability and
>security of the matters under ICANN's coordination, and to establish
>measures to address these threats, their avoidance, and the avoidance of
>the collateral damage they may produce, in order that non-commercial
>organizations with limited technical, human and financial resources be
>least affected by the materialization of such threats, and have affordable
>access to the corresponding preventive measures.
>
>Further, the NCDNHC calls upon its technically strong members, and their
>peers, as well as on organizations with appropriate policy orientation and
>expertise, to aid ICANN in the aforementioned effort to assess the threats
>to stability and security of the DNS and address allocation system and to
>provide the community with their expertise. The NCDNHC organization
representatives will call on people from their communities to provide
further assistance.
>
>The NCDNHC offers the technical and policy expertise of its members, the
>high standing of some of them in their societies, and the intercultural
>experience of the constituency, to the process of assessing and securing
>the stability and security of the matters under ICANN's purview.
>
>Alejandro Pisanty
>
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