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>This is an excellent illustration of why ICANN should be replaced by a system that is distributed enough that nobody would ever think of even attempting to do
by M2Ys4U 12y ago
>This is an excellent illustration of why ICANN should be replaced by a system that is distributed enough that nobody would ever think of even attempting to do something like this ever again.
Such as?
DNS is useful because it is authoritative. What would happen if two parts of this 'distributed' ICANN disagreed on something? Different parts of the internet would see a completely different state (e.g. who owns gov.uk?), Thus rendering DNS effectively useless.
The only alternative I could see to ICANN being a US organisation is for it to be given authority by treaty. And that would open up a whole other can of worms. ICANN run like the ITU?
- jacquesm 12y agoWell, another alternative would be to turn ICANN over to Iran, would you be comfortable with that? How about the Swiss? I'd be perfectly happy if ICANN were a Swiss organization.
- tobltobs 12y agoWhy do you believe Switzerland would be a good home for ICANN like organisation?
- jacquesm 12y agoBecause they're pretty good at resisting outside pressure and have a reputation for reliability and long term vision.
- kghose 12y agoOnly if you have gobs and gobs of money.
- pgrote 12y agoSwiss Bank Secrecy Succumbs To U.S. Tax Enforcers http://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2014/02/03/swiss-bank-secrecy-succumbs-to-u-s-tax-enforcers/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2014/02/03/swiss-bank-s...
- darrhiggs 12y agojacquesm did not say that they were impervious to it, only that they are "pretty good at resisting outside pressure".
- 13throwaway 12y agoI think Namecoin would be a good solution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
- pantaril 12y ago>DNS is useful because it is authoritative. What would happen if two parts of this 'distributed' ICANN disagreed on something? Different parts of the internet would see a completely different state (e.g. who owns gov.uk?), Thus rendering DNS effectively useless. This problem can be solved in distributed system using bitcoin-like proof of work scheme. If two parts of the network disagree, the bigger part is considered right. Namecoin project is trying to implement distributed DNS using this technique - http://namecoin.info/ http://namecoin.info/ .
- EGreg 12y agoNamecoin is one way. But why do you really need an authoritative registry? Think about Google's Real Names policy. Who does it benefit? If I don't want you to see my real name, why would I want you to find me by my real name? You should be able to find me only through existing connections you already have established in internet space. If you want some authoritative distributed hash map, you can use namecoin like you said. But think about why you actually need an authoritative registry. Hyperlinks? The document embedding the hyperlink can also embed the IP number. In fact, that's how the underlying IP routing system works. BGP isan interesting target for spoofing as of late. At the very least, a website wishing for others to find it by its domain name should tell more than one registry, so there isn't a single point of failure. In the trade-off between consistency and having no single point of failure, you can think of the latter as failover or backup plan.
- mariuolo 12y ago> ICANN run like the ITU? Do you see any problem with that?