E-Association - Nunavut

What is ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. These services were originally performed under U.S. Government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function.

As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

N-CAP

N-CAP is an At Large Structure within ICANN's North American Regional Atlarge Organization. Darlene Thompson presently acts as Secretariat to the NARALO. Each of the five regional RALOs elect two people from ALSs to act on the At Large Advisory Council (and 5 others are nominated in) for a total of 15 who are to bring matters of grassroots concerns to ICANN. As an ALS, N-CAP is under an obligation to keep its member community informed on various ICANN issues.

Below you will find some issues that you may wish to read up on further.

SSAC Advisory on Fast Flux Hosting and DNS

Cyber-criminals and Internet miscreants use Fast Flux hosting to frustrate anticrime efforts aimed at locating and shutting down web sites used for illegal purposes. Fast flux hosting supports a wide variety of cyber-crime activities (fraud, identity theft, online scams) and is considered one of the most serious threats to online activities today. One variant of fast flux hosting, "double flux", exploits the domain name registration and name resolution services.

SAC 025 describes the technical aspects of fast flux hosting and fast flux service networks and explains how the DNS is exploited to abet criminal activities that employ fast flux hosting. The Advisory discusses current and possible methods of mitigating fast flux hosting at various points in the Internet and identifies those methods that SSAC considers practical and sensible.