ICANN & the DNS Root

Presented at WAHCKon 2013, May 4, 2013, 3:55 p.m. (65 minutes)

A brief overview of what ICANN is, the ICANN DNS policy process, coming changes to the domain name system including many new top level domains, some security challenges from new top level domains, and a brief explanation of why it is really difficult to DDOS the DNS root servers.

Presenters:

• Dave Cake - Electronic Frontiers Australia and ICANN Non-Commercial User Constituency (He sounds pretty fancy)
  Currently Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, Internet governance researcher at Curtin University, member of ICANNs first Security, Stability and Resiliency Review Team, formerly ICANN Non-Commercial Users Constituency Chair, and currently ICANN GNSO Councillor for the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group. Besides activism work, 20 years experience as a sysadmin and software developer. (Yep, pretty damn fancy)

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