[ncdnhc-discuss] modified res on sec&stab

[Milton Mueller]

I have edited Alejandro's resolution
for style, brevity and a bit o' substance. Tell
me whether you like the changes, Alej:

MUELLER-AMENDED RESOLUTION ON SECURITY

Recent, tragic events have heightened the need to
assess the security of the Internet's centrally 
coordinated resources, and the need for strong international cooperation for this purpose. 

The Internet's robust design, based among other factors in its distributed, decentralized nature, currently is based on the central coordination
of a few resources, including domain names, 
Internet addresses, and protocol parameters.

The non-commercial organizations and entities 
represented in the Non-Commercial Domain-Name 
Holders Constituency (NCDNHC) of ICANN's DNSO
may be less able to recover from disruptions in 
their operations caused by attacks on the DNS.

Many non-commercial interests in the DNS and
IP allocation system are in universities and 
research institutes with high levels of technical expertise. Many others, however, have very 
limited financial and technical resources 
to train for the prevention of a crisis or
to revocer from such a crisis.

The expertise embodied in non-commercial 
organizations is usually more accessible to 
a wider community and not restricted to 
proprietary interests, so academic and other 
non-commercial organizations may be optimal
points for the diffusion of knowledge about 
threats to the stability and security of the 
systems under ICANN's purview.

Therefore the NCDNHC calls upon the Names Council, 
the ASO, the PSO, the ICANN Board, and Education and 
Research Networks throughout the world to promptly 
assess the threats to the stability and
security of the matters under ICNN'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 can be protected from 
such threats, and have affordable access to 
preventative measures.

Further, the NCDNHC calls upon its 
technically strong members and their peers 
to aid ICANN in the aforementioned effort 
to assess the threats to the 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 security of the resources under ICANN's 
administration.