ICANN publishes DNS Attack Factsheet

9 Mar 2007


      ICANN's published a very good summary of the February 6 attack on the
...
root server system.
<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-08mar07.htm>
"ICANN has today released a factsheet concerning the recent attack on
the root server system on 6 February 2007. The factsheet is intended
to provide an explanation of the attack for a non-technical audience
in the hope of enlarging public understanding surrounding this and
related issues.
Aside from covering the attack itself and the engineers' response to
it, the factsheet also briefly reviews the root server system, the
domain name system, Anycast technology, and what can be done in order
to deal with such attacks in future.
It is hoped that the factsheet will be the first in a series, with
ICANN's general manager of public participation, Kieren McCarthy,
acting as series editor. Future factsheets hope to follow a similar
approach of providing clear and topical non-technical information
about various aspects of the Internet in which ICANN is involved.
We welcome whatever feedback the community may have, plus suggestions
for future factsheets. Please post any comments you have on the
related blog post. This factsheet is released under a Creative
Commons licence."
Good to see creative commons license being used, help spread the word.
Blog post here <http://blog.icann.org/?p=37 >
Factsheet in PDF
<http://www.icann.org/announcements/factsheet-dns-attack-08mar07.pdf>
I imagine Kieren McCarthy would like to hear from people what he
should be covering next.  And any comments on the factsheet itself.
Adam
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