AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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It has been said by voices in At-Large (as well as others) that the issues which most concern the broadest community of Internet end users are those related to the security and trustability of the Internet.
For its part, ICANN’s mission includes as a core component ensuring the stability and security of the DNS and autonomous number system which is it’s remit. There has been a debate for as long as ICANN has been around about where ICANN’s mission begins and ends with respect to issues such as phishing, pharming, and spam.
More recently, ICANN’s communities have begun to ask how ICANN could work within its remit and have a positive impact to reducing activities which use the DNS in criminal or fraudulent ways, but where these activities go far beyond the DNS and autonomous number system, or where law enforcement agencies feel that action should be reserved to them.
Two recent discussions on security issues relate to Fast Flux Hosting (a practice whereby changes to the DNS entries for internet sites are made very rapidly in order to “hide” them from attempts to take down sites engaged in fraudulent activity), and to the implementation of DNSSEC, a technical change to certain DNS operations designed to make the DNS more secure from abuse.
The At-Large community has yet to make authoritative statements on these subjects specifically, or to state its views on the dividing line between ICANN’s mission and issues outside that mission.
For its part, ICANN’s mission includes as a core component ensuring the stability and security of the DNS and autonomous number system which is it’s remit. There has been a debate for as long as ICANN has been around about where ICANN’s mission begins and ends with respect to issues such as phishing, pharming, and spam.
More recently, ICANN’s communities have begun to ask how ICANN could work within its remit and have a positive impact to reducing activities which use the DNS in criminal or fraudulent ways, but where these activities go far beyond the DNS and autonomous number system, or where law enforcement agencies feel that action should be reserved to them.
Two recent discussions on security issues relate to Fast Flux Hosting (a practice whereby changes to the DNS entries for internet sites are made very rapidly in order to “hide” them from attempts to take down sites engaged in fraudulent activity), and to the implementation of DNSSEC, a technical change to certain DNS operations designed to make the DNS more secure from abuse.
The At-Large community has yet to make authoritative statements on these subjects specifically, or to state its views on the dividing line between ICANN’s mission and issues outside that mission.
ICANN Geographic Regions
One of the key mechanisms through which ICANN’s structures ensure diversity is via a concept of Geographic Regions – the world is split into five regions, and many positions in ICANN are selected by requiring that there be a balance of nationals from each of those regions. This has a fundamental impact on At-Large, where the ALS community is grouped into five Regional At-Large Organisations (“RALOs”) based upon Geographic Regions.
ICANN is required to periodically review the structure of the Geographic Regions, and is about to convene a working group composed of two members of the major bodies within ICANN – Supporting Organisations and Advisory Committees. At-Large will be represented by two persons on that working group, but they will in turn rely upon the wider At-Large community in order to represent At-Large.
At-Large has not submitted a formal position to date on the structure and composition of ICANN’s Geographic Regions.
ICANN is required to periodically review the structure of the Geographic Regions, and is about to convene a working group composed of two members of the major bodies within ICANN – Supporting Organisations and Advisory Committees. At-Large will be represented by two persons on that working group, but they will in turn rely upon the wider At-Large community in order to represent At-Large.
At-Large has not submitted a formal position to date on the structure and composition of ICANN’s Geographic Regions.
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