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ISOC-NY ICANN Special Interest Group

This group, formed in Feb 2008, is where ISOC-NY members study domain-name and IP address related issues, and formulate policy positions that can be advocated to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 1) via our membership in the Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), and 2) (potentially) via the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) as an At-Large Structure (ALS) in the North American At-Large Community (NARALO).

Mailing List

There is a mailing list for group discussion. Archives are not public.

Members

• David Solomonoff (ISOC-NY president)
• Joly MacFie (ISOC-NY secretary)
• Evan Korth (ISOC-NY vice president)
• Danny Younger (former ISOC-NY NCUC representative)
• Veni Markovski (ISOC-NY board - ICANN East Europe Liaison)
• Aaron Williamson (NCUC Rep)
• Erin Simon
• Surya Ganguly

Links

• ICANN
• Non Commercial Users Constituency
  • ncuc discuss
• At-Large Advisory Committee
  • ALAC list archive
  • All At-Large Mailing lists
• North American At-Large Community

Resources

• Wikipedia ICANN
• What is At-Large?
• ICANN Wiki NCUC
• ICANN Structure

Topics

Meetings

• Schedule informal F2F for new members and old.

NCUC

• Establishing Aaron & Erin as our NCUC reps.
  • Milton Mueller must be phoned.

At-Large

• We are now an ALS in the NARALO - Joly and David are default reps.
• At-Large Summit Questionnaire

Fast Flux

A matter of current concern, "Fast flux hosting" refers to the automated, rapid modification of IP addresses assigned to hosts in the DNS to hide the location of web sites supporting malicious, illegal, or criminal activities

• http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/audio-briefing-05jun08.htm
• http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/ssac-documents.htm - look for SAC25