ICANN board member berates ‘woefully unprepared’ DHS
Burke Hansen writing in The Register notes a report that Susan Crawford recently took a swipe at security standards in place at the DHS. The Register reports Crawford as saying, the DHS is woefully unprepared for what lies ahead and that it has a long way to go. She notes “‘from the outside, it looks as if [DHS] doesn’t really know what it’s doing,’ and that ‘[T]hey’re trying, but many of their efforts lack timeframes for completion.’ Other problems, such as a high turnover rate among senior officials at DHS, have had an impact, but there seems to be a general failure of imagination at the agency. Crawford has been advocating the creation of a new internet governance group to tackle the problem.” The article concludes “The notoriously ineffectual ICANN seems an unlikely agent to do the job because of its fear of confrontation and a general disinterest in policing cyberspace – even in a largely technical sphere that cuts to the core of ICANN’s mission, which is to protect the integrity and stability of the net itself. “[Crawford] wants an ICANN-style multi-stakeholder entity that is not the ICANN we currently know and love. Of course, that begs the question of whether or not two ICANNs are really better than one.”
http://www.theregister.com/2007/04/14/crawford_icann_security_ddos/
us: ICANN board member berates ‘woefully unprepared’ DHS
Burke Hansen writing in The Register notes a report that Susan Crawford recently took a swipe at security standards in place at the DHS. The Register reports Crawford as saying, the DHS is woefully unprepared for what lies ahead and that it has a long way to go. She notes “’from the outside, it looks as if [DHS] doesn’t really know what it’s doing,’ and that ‘[T]hey’re trying, but many of their efforts lack timeframes for completion.’ Other problems, such as a high turnover rate among senior officials at DHS, have had an impact, but there seems to be a general failure of imagination at the agency. Crawford has been advocating the creation of a new internet governance group to tackle the problem.” The article concludes “The notoriously ineffectual ICANN seems an unlikely agent to do the job because of its fear of confrontation and a general disinterest in policing cyberspace – even in a largely technical sphere that cuts to the core of ICANN’s mission, which is to protect the integrity and stability of the net itself. “[Crawford] wants an ICANN-style multi-stakeholder entity that is not the ICANN we currently know and love. Of course, that begs the question of whether or not two ICANNs are really better than one.”