DNS Abuse Session

[Ephraim Percy Kenyanito]

Thanks so much Farzaneh for this.

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On 11/6/19 5:28 PM, farzaneh badii wrote:
> Hi everyone 
>
> We will have a DNS Abuse session in Montreal at 10.30 AM today (in an
> hour). Stephanie asked me to be on the panel providing the
> non-commercial perspective. 
>
> As far as I know and as they informed me during the planning meeting
> for this, Bruce Tonkin has formatted it roughly as such:
>
> 1. What is DNS abuse. 
> I don't think our problem rests in the definition of DNS abuse but we
> have been struggling with not having a thorough governance
> mechanism for fighting with abuse. We need to have policies, an
> implementation plan and dispute resolution. We only have patches of
> solutions but not a governance mechanism. 
>
> Here I want to emphasize the solely technical aspect of DNS abuse. DNS
> is a tool that can be used to carry out crimes and to a much greater
> extent, it can be used to facilitate our communications, global
> interconnectedness, e-commerce and many more human life activities
> that can lead to prosperity.   We need to refrain from re-opening the
> issue of DNS abuse definition every time. DNS abuse has a limited
> technical meaning, it is in the RAAs and by no means, it relates to
> the content.  Re-opening the discussion on definition only has merits
> if there are novel criminal activities that are directly and solely
> related to the usage of the DNS. 
>
>  
> 2. What is the role of ICANN: Just because the usage of DNS can be
> detected in a grand criminal scheme does not mean we have to and can
> combat that crime through ICANN. ICANN becomes a convenient policy
> forum to go to because its mission is related to the DNS but that
> doesn't mean that we can and need to resolve all the  crimes that are
> somehow related to DNS or have used the DNS among other things through
> ICANN. Wanting to resolve all crimes that someone had DNS involved can
> hamper the distributed and open nature of the Internet. ICANN should
> not become the cetralized go to place for combatting with all sorts of
> crimes. sometimes DNS is used but the crime committed through a wide
> variety of other technical deceptions, for example through insecure
> protocols or social engineering. These subtlities have to be
> considered when we want to discuss them at  ICANN.
>
> 3. Registries registrars: incentives, sharing best practices  etc.
>
> There has to be a clear line between what registries and registrars
> want to do with regards to DNS abuse and what ICANN should tell them
> to do. I personally don't like ICANN be used as a venue to share
> practices about content regulation even if it's not binding it
> reflects a wrong image about ICANN's mission to the public.
>
>
> 4. How should registries and registrars combat egregious content: I
> believe if registries and registrars want to do something about
> egregious content they need to have again a governance mechanism. They
> need to have transparent policies, policies on implementation and
> dispute resolution. The legitimacy of decisionmaking and their
> authority will be hampered should they make arbitrary decision. They
> will be more prone to government pressure as well if they don't have a
> thorough governance mechanism. 
>
> I am sorry, sending this in late but I just managed to put them all
> together.
>
>
> Farzaneh
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