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>Of course, the replacement of ICANN will never happen What's the reasoning behind this? I agree that we will likely not see a new body in charge of that whic
by redthrowaway 15y ago
>Of course, the replacement of ICANN will never happen
What's the reasoning behind this? I agree that we will likely not see a new body in charge of that which ICANN currently does, but there's no reason why a parallel system couldn't arise should DC go overboard with its malfeasant retardation.
ICANN has inertia, but if it continues to fail to protect the Internet, something else will pop up.
- marshray 15y agoThe funny thing here is that all of this big-money big-government international strategic arm twisting is over DNS settings, something users can change as easily as changing two numbers. If things get bad enough, users will simply point their resolvers to some alternate root. Trying to block DNS requests to alternate resolvers is a laughable proposition from a technical perspective.
- nitrogen 15y agoIf things get bad enough, users will simply point their resolvers to some alternate root. Trying to block DNS requests to alternate resolvers is a laughable proposition from a technical perspective. ISPs can block outbound port 53 like they block port 25, or use DPI to detect DNS packets headed out of the ISP network. The only way around that is universal encryption, which the ISPs can slow down but not stop by blocking any high-entropy packets.