ICANN Plans for Disaster: A Registry Failure
ICANN is finally taking steps to figure out what to do if a registry
fails says Larry Seltzer in eWeek. Seltzer writes that ICANN is looking
at what would happen when one of the critical infrastructure providers
on the internet, such as VeriSign, were to fail. The article gives a
background and says that while gTLD operators established a Registry
Failure Task Force in 2001 to look into this question, nothing much
happened until last year. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but the
article notes interest in the issue rose again upon the failure of
RegisterFly.
"The plan, such as it is now, defines who at ICANN and the registry are
relevant to the process and what they shall do. It defines how
communications with the public will be handled. The ICANN crisis
management team will be tested at least once per year."
The article concludes: "ICANN has been thinking about these matters a lot more lately than it had in the past, and this is a good thing. I can't imagine what it was spending its time on before this, but it wasn't as important."
To read this article in full in eWeek, see www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/ICANN-Plans-For-Disaster-A-Registry-Failure/.
The article concludes: "ICANN has been thinking about these matters a lot more lately than it had in the past, and this is a good thing. I can't imagine what it was spending its time on before this, but it wasn't as important."
To read this article in full in eWeek, see www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/ICANN-Plans-For-Disaster-A-Registry-Failure/.