ICANN: Initial Report of the GNSO Fast Flux Hosting Working Group
Thursday, January 29. 2009
Fast-Flux Service Networks is a phenomenon I covered in this blog a couple of times earlier on. We als published two papers on this topic and made the data collected during our study available. Back in May 2008 ICANN had formed a working group to address this problem which should answer the following questions:
Since a few days the initial report of this working group is available and the report is an interesting read. Public comments should be sent directly to ICANN until February 15, 2009 - so if you have comments, please send them to ICANN.
- Who benefits from fast flux, and who is harmed?
- Who would benefit from cessation of the practice and who would be harmed?
- Are registry operators involved, or could they be, in fast flux hosting activities? If so, how?
- Are registrars involved in fast flux hosting activities? If so, how?
- How are registrants affected by fast flux hosting?
- How are Internet users affected by fast flux hosting?
- What technical (e.g. changes to the way in which DNS updates operate) and policy (e.g. changes to registry/registrar agreements or rules governing permissible registrant behavior) measures could be implemented by registries and registrars to mitigate the negative effects of fast flux?
- What would be the impact (positive or negative) of establishing limitations, guidelines, or restrictions on registrants, registrars and/or registries with respect to practices that enable or facilitate fast flux hosting?
- What would be the impact of these limitations, guidelines, or restrictions to product and service innovation?
- What are some of the best practices available with regard to protection from fast flux?
Since a few days the initial report of this working group is available and the report is an interesting read. Public comments should be sent directly to ICANN until February 15, 2009 - so if you have comments, please send them to ICANN.
