On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
On the other hand, I am very concerned about what they would do to the numbers side of things..
Just keep their grubby paws off the IETF and the internet standards process..... I doubt there's much reason for concern. IPv4 is pretty much already spoken for, and probably even they could not screw up IPv6 allocation. It's not as if they would be free to invent crazy new numbering schemes. I'm not too worried about what they could do to TLDs... It would be hard to
make a bigger mess than ICANN already has.
What comes to mind is scrapping WHOIS due to "privacy concerns", and replacing it with a filing with a private national authority for the TLD, accessible primarily to law enforcement (and not incident responders/operators/infosec/anti-spam people). How TLDs COULD be screwed up worse than ICANN...... introducing "regional TLDs", for coded regions (similar to DVD region locking), and region-locking existing TLDs --- Or certain agreements and fees will be required for an ISP to "subscribe" to a certain TLD, including agreement to pay kickbacks for "Data transfer" and termination fees related to DNS queries and site access, according to rate schedules that the receiving country will be free to set, however exorbitantly they like ---- to the benefit of certain countries desiring to limit access or charge access fees for subscription to out-of-region DNS content; and splitting the root zone, so that domains registered in a certain region cannot be resolved in other regions,
Owen
-- -Mysid