<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Alain,<br>Thanks for the heads-up.<br><br>Please note that four days ago, an updated version of the conflicker was found, this update scans not 250 but 50,000 Domain names.<br><br>Details<br>http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/923?ref=rss<br><br>Douglas onyango +256(0712)981329<br>
If you are not part of the solution, your are part of the Problem.<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 3/12/09, africann-request@afrinic.net <i><africann-request@afrinic.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: africann-request@afrinic.net <africann-request@afrinic.net><br>Subject: AfrICANN Digest, Vol 25, Issue 9<br>To: africann@afrinic.net<br>Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 7:45 PM<br><br><pre>Send AfrICANN mailing list submissions to<br> africann@afrinic.net<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> africann-request@afrinic.net<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> africann-owner@afrinic.net<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of AfrICANN
digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. ICANN To IP Experts: Come Back With A Solution For Internet<br> Trademark Protection (Anne-Rachel Inn?)<br> 2. The DNSSEC Industry Coalition Announces the Formation of Its<br> Registrar Review Team (Anne-Rachel Inn?)<br> 3. collaborative effort to help defeat Conficker (aka Downadup)<br> worm (ALAIN AINA)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:32:44 +0100<br>From: Anne-Rachel Inn? <annerachel@gmail.com><br>Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN To IP Experts: Come Back With A<br> Solution For Internet Trademark Protection<br>To: africann@afrinic.net<br>Message-ID:<br> <bd1bfd500903120732k76b40db7m49a4b7b90d88e3df@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br><br>*12 March 2009*<br> ICANN To IP Experts: Come Back With A Solution For Internet Trademark<br>Protection
By Monika Ermert<br><http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/author/monika/>for<br>*Intellectual Property Watch* @ 1:00 pm<br>http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/03/12/icann-to-ip-experts-come-back-with-a-solution-for-internet-trademark-protection/<br><br>Trademark issues are emerging with the upcoming introduction of new generic<br>top-level domains on the internet, and the board members of the body<br>introducing the names has passed the ball back to intellectual property<br>experts to find answers.<br><br>The Intellectual Property Constituency of the Internet Corporation for<br>Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, the internet technical coordinating body)<br>has been asked to work out a viable solution “no later than 24 May 2009.”<br>Trademark issues have been defined as one of four overarching issues still<br>to be solved before ICANN can finalise the application procedure for the<br>next hundreds or thousands of top-level domains from .eco to
.music.<br><br>In its resolution on Friday in Mexico City, the ICANN board decided to<br>request that the ICANN Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO)<br>Intellectual Property Constituency - in consultation with ICANN staff -<br>convene an “implementation recommendation team” comprised of an<br>“internationally diverse group of persons with knowledge, expertise, and<br>experience in the fields of trademark, consumer protection, or competition<br>law, and the interplay of trademarks and the domain name system.” The team<br>is to “develop and propose solutions to the overarching issue of trademark<br>protection in connection with the introduction of new gTLDs.”<br><br>“We have reached out to the IP community saying, ‘You come back to us with<br>some proposal how this should be solved,’” said ICANN Board Chairman Peter<br>Dengate Thrush. An IP lawyer by profession, Dengate Thrush said he was<br>confident that a proposal would be
brought back to ICANN because of the<br>“track record” of the IP experts. “We have gone through this already once<br>in<br>1998/99,” he said. The debates 10 years ago resulted in the formation of the<br>Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution<br>Policy<http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp.htm>(UDRP), built into the<br>system to fight domain grabbing. Many domain-name<br>disputes under the UDRP are brought to the World Intellectual Property<br>Organization, which is expected to release its annual report on internet<br>disputes next week.<br><br>The danger of name-grabbing at the first stage and the concern that<br>trademark owners will be pressured to protect their brands in hundreds of<br>new TLDs led to a flurry of critical comments during the comment period last<br>year for the first version of the Applicant’s Guidebook to the new domains.<br>Even the US government called into question the need for new gTLDs asking<br>for studies on the
issue of market demand and market impact.<br><br>ICANN recently published “preliminary” versions of studies prepared by<br>Dennis Carlton, economics professor at the University of Chicago and<br>highest-ranking economist in the Antitrust Division of the US Justice<br>Department between 2006 and 2008. The draft texts came under heavy critique<br>from participants at the ICANN meeting in Mexico.<br><br>After ICANN’s decision on the implementation recommendation team there are<br>some concerns with regard to the composition of group by outside observers.<br>Board member Dennis Jennings of Ireland said he was glad that the resolution<br>taken included internationality as a principle for the group. The discussion<br>about IP issues seemed to have been “driven by big business and West, or<br>North American intellectual property interests,” he said, adding that<br>“other<br>dimensions that need to be taken into account.”<br><br>Wendy Seltzer,
non-voting liaison of the At-Large Advisory Committee on the<br>board said she hoped that members of other communities would be “consulted<br>early in the process and would have full opportunities to analyse proposals<br>that come out of this working group.”<br><br>”All interested constituencies will have the opportunity to provide input to<br>the group,” wrote Kristina Rosette, an IP lawyer at Covington & Burling<br>who<br>represents the IP Constituency in the GNSO. This means the opportunity to<br>provide input before drafting starts and during the early stages as well as<br>the opportunity to comment on the draft, she said in a written statement to<br>*Intellectual Property Watch*.<br><br>”It may also mean membership on the team,” Rosette added. “To my<br>knowledge,<br>that aspect has not been decided nor has the size of the team.” But she<br>would expect that the group could be established in the next 10 days.<br>Rosette also
said she was confident that the IP Constituency could<br>ultimately present a solution acceptable to other constituencies.<br><br>Members of other constituencies in first reactions were worried that the IP<br>Constituency would start over and neglect the policy development process<br>that has taken place over years on the new gTLD introduction. They complain<br>that the constituency has taken part in it and now is given a privileged<br>chance to push their interests.<br><br>“We need a solution,” Dengate Thrush said of the trademark issue. If the<br>report is not acceptable to other constituencies in ICANN, “we will start<br>our own work for a solution,” he said.<br><br>Government Involvement<br><br>The chairman of the ICANN Government Advisory Committee (GAC), Janis<br>Karklins, welcomed the steps taken to ensure IP protection but criticised a<br>proposal that geographic names be given the same level of protection rather<br>than higher
protection.<br><br>So far GAC advice on the protection of country and place names has not been<br>“fully taken into account,” Karklins said, as ICANN provided protection for<br>the top level but not the second level of the upcoming new gTLDs. The second<br>level would be in the form of @name.othername.<br><br>Dengate Thrush reacted to this by saying that there might be a need for the<br>GAC to reconsider parts of its advice, “partly because they’re difficult to<br>implement and partly because they’re in conflict with other policy<br>decisions.”<br><br>Dengate Thrush also confirmed that as details of the different processes of<br>introducing new gTLDs and new internationalised country-code top-level<br>domains (IDN ccTLDs) becoming much clearer, the possibility for different<br>start times for each set of names would become more real.<br><br>Dengate Thrush asked, “Now that the possibility of divergence is becoming<br>more real, what is the
policy behind that?” and called for discussion on the<br>question at the next ICANN meeting to be held in Sydney on 21-26 June.<br><br>*Monika Ermert may be reached at info@ip-watch.ch.*<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL:<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/africann/attachments/20090312/cc1d38a8/attachment-0001.htm<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:33:43 +0100<br>From: Anne-Rachel Inn? <annerachel@gmail.com><br>Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] The DNSSEC Industry Coalition Announces<br> the Formation of Its Registrar Review Team<br>To: africann@afrinic.net<br>Message-ID:<br> <bd1bfd500903120733t7d4a4d3eh3c6e4211e86fff13@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/the-dnssec-industry-coalition-announces,746093.shtml<br><br>RESTON, VA -- 03/11/09 -- The DNSSEC Industry
Coalition (<br>http://dnsseccoalition.org) announces today the formation of its Registrar<br>Review Team following the 34th public meeting of the Internet Corporation of<br>Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Mexico City, Mexico. The Registrar<br>Review Team is comprised of companies that will provide the coalition with<br>valuable information from a registrar's unique perspective.<br><br>"I welcome the registrars who have joined the Coalition and are leading<br>efforts for widespread adoption of DNSSEC," says Alexa Raad, CEO of .ORG,<br>The Public Interest Registry and founder of the DNSSEC Coalition.<br>"Registrars are critical to the overall deployment of DNSSEC, and we look<br>forward to long term collaboration with this important technical upgrade."<br><br>"MarkMonitor® aims to be at the forefront of methods to secure our<br>customers' brands," says Ihab Shraim, Chief Security Officer with<br>MarkMonitor. "DNSSEC is a very important next step to
the future of a safe<br>and secure online environment and we look forward to working with the<br>Coalition to make DNSSEC implementation a reality in the industry."<br><br>The Registrar Review Team consists of Name.com, Names Beyond, DynDNS,<br>Corporation Service Company (CSC), and MarkMonitor. Membership to the DNSSEC<br>Industry Coalition is open to domain name registries, registrars and<br>industry securities experts.<br><br>"Registrars are the next step in the Coalition's membership, and I am<br>thrilled to have them on board with us," says Steve Crocker, CEO of<br>Shinkuro, Inc. and co-chair of the DNSSEC Industry Coalition. "I look<br>forward to working closely with the registrar review team to streamline<br>their implementation process."<br><br>Coalition members include Top-Level domain registries of .ORG, The Public<br>Interest Registry, the .org registry operator; Afilias Limited, registry<br>services provider to 15 top level domains; .SE (the
Internet Infrastructure<br>Foundation), the .se registry operator; EDUCAUSE, the .edu registry<br>operator; Nominet, the .uk registry operator; VeriSign, Inc., the .com,<br>.net, .tv, and .cc registry operator; SIDN, the .nl registry operator, and<br>NeuStar, Inc., the .biz and .us registry operator. The coalition is also<br>supported by industry security experts such as Shinkuro, Inc.; NL Net Labs;<br>InfoBlox, Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.; Internet Society; OARC, Kirei<br>AB; and Secure64 Software Corporation.<br><br>Hailing itself as an action oriented group, it seeks organizations willing<br>to contribute and support the widespread adoption of DNSSEC.<br><br>About Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC)<br><br>With DNSSEC, Internet users know that their Internet-based communications<br>such as web site visits and email correspondence actually connect to the<br>parties they intend to reach. DNSSEC thwarts attacks such as pharming,
cache<br>poisoning, and DNS redirection that have been used to commit fraud,<br>distribute malware, or steal personal or confidential information. For more<br>information on DNSSEC, please visit http://www.dnssec-deployment.org.<br><br>About the DNSSEC Industry Coalition<br><br>The DNSSEC Industry Coalition is a global group of registries and industry<br>experts whose mission is to work collaboratively to facilitate adoption of<br>Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and streamline the implementations<br>across Domain Name Registries. Members work together to establish a<br>consistent set of tools and applications, shared best practices,<br>specifications and shared nomenclature. DNSSEC Industry Coalition members<br>include both generic Top-Level Domain and country code Top-Level Domain<br>registries along with industry and educational experts of the Domain Name<br>System. The Coalition was founded by .ORG, The Public Interest Registry in<br>August
2008.<br><br> More Information<br>Kate Russell<br>RMR & Associates (for Public Interest Registry)<br>Phone: +1 (301) 230.0045 x19<br>Email: Email<br>Contact<http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=B80C3BCBE4F8C8B5><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL:<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/africann/attachments/20090312/bd80cc7e/attachment-0001.htm<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:44:06 +0000<br>From: ALAIN AINA <aalain@trstech.net><br>Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] collaborative effort to help defeat<br> Conficker (aka Downadup) worm<br>To: africann@afrinic.net<br>Message-ID: <164C03F4-1BEF-4EF6-BC0D-618B9F37EE77@trstech.net><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>hi all,<br><br>Sorry for late notice but wee've all been busy. I wanted for security <br>reasons, to just reiterate something that is talked about
in the below <br>link on the ICANN website: the conflicker worm.<br>The Conficker worm uses DNS to receive instructions, to spread and <br>launch DDoS attacks. It contains an algorithm which randomly <br>generates 250 domains names for the week. For example the list used <br>during the week 17-31 jan from<br>http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/downadup_domain_blocklist_17_31.txt <br> shows domains under gtld and cctld. This keep changing and the <br>number of domains generated keeps increasing with every new version of <br>conflicker. So please be careful on registrations of domains names <br>under your CCTLDs.<br><br>ICANN announcement is at :<br>http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-12feb09-en.htm <br> mentioned that some companies has joined the effort to help <br>contains the worn propagation and impact.<br><br>Best to all,<br><br>--alain<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was
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