[105684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Sun Jun 29 05:48:23 2008
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:45:42 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <48640FC2.2000909@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:53:06PM +0200,
Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote
a message of 49 lines which said:
> not even thinking of all the nice security issues which come along
> (home, mycomputer and .exe etc anyone ?
This requires serious elaboration. How could you use a domain in
".exe" to actually attack someone? (No handwaving, please, actual
study.)
> Thank you people doing all the ICANN politics for destroying the Internet.
The Internet, until now, resisted to forces much more powerful than
ICANN.