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.”

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/

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