ICANN's SECSAC meeting on Verisign's Site Finder Service

Thu Oct 2 03:38:18 UTC 2003

Just passing this along - some of you may want to attend to voice your 
opinion. - Russ

>From: DCISOC <info at dcisoc.org>
>Subject: DCISOC:  SECSAC meeting on Verisign's Site Finder Service
>This meeting, on one of the hottest Internet topics, will be held in 
>downtown D.C. next Tuesday.  You're invited.
>
>
>Special Meeting of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee 
>Regarding VeriSign's Deployment of Wildcard
>
>Marina del Rey, CA - 30 September 2003 - ICANN's Security and Stability
>Advisory Committee (SECSAC) announced today that it will hold a special
>meeting on 7 October 2003 to gather input regarding VeriSign's recent
>change to the operation of the registry for the .com and .net Top Level
>Domains.
>
>SECSAC is an ICANN advisory committee comprised of Internet pioneers and
>technical experts including operators of Internet root servers, registrars,
>and TLD registries.
>
>On 15 September 2003, VeriSign introduced a "wildcard" into the .com and
>.net zones. The VeriSign wildcard redirects traffic that would otherwise
>have resulted in a "no domain" response to a VeriSign-operated website with
>search results and links to paid advertisements.
>
>Since the introduction of the wildcard, the Internet Architecture Board
>(IAB), SECSAC and other groups have issued separate statements expressing
>concerns over this change to the operation of the Internet's core
>infrastructure and its impact on the stability of the Internet.
>
>Following this special meeting, SECSAC will issue a report intended to be
>of use to ICANN, to the technical community, and to the community at large
>who seek to understand the issues at hand and how the critical parts of the
>Internet interact with each other.
>
>The meeting will be held on Tuesday, 7 October 2003, from 10 AM to 4 PM at:
>
>The Center for Strategic and International Studies
><www.csis.org>
>1800 K Street NW
>Washington, DC 20006
>
>The meeting is free and open to the public. Please pre-register at 
><http://register.icann.org>.
>ICANN also plans to webcast the meeting live.
>Further details including an agenda, background materials and webcast
>arrangements are available at <http://secsac.icann.org>.
>
>In preparation for the meeting, ICANN and its SECSAC have issued a public
>request for comments and reports to <secsac-comment at icann.org> relating to
>the effects of the .com and .net wildcards.
>
>Additional information regarding SECSAC is available at 
><http://www.icann.org/committees/security/>.
>An information page on the .com and .net wildcards has been posted at 
><http://www.icann.org/general/wildcard-history.htm>.

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