At its New Zealand meeting, the Internet organization must decide how to handle a wave of denial-of-service attacks, controversy over a "red light district" for the Web, and a protest from CIRA. (eWEEK.com)Denial of service attacks and a revolt over porn are two topics expected to percolate at the March 27 meeting of a major Internet ruling body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
ICANN is a private, nonprofit company responsible for setting policy largely followed by the world's domain distributors.
Perhaps the more important of the two major issues facing ICANN at the meeting is the problem of the DoS attacks, which began in January.
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The attacks, which have been numerous, use the domain name server to change the IP address of each Web site to the format "www.xxx.xxx."
Web sites with these addresses become so congested with traffic that Web browsers take a very long time to download the sites.
At its meeting, ICANN is set to hear two recommendations on how to halt the attacks, said Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN, based in Marina del Rey, Calif.
The reality of the threat was underscored only a few hours before ICANN began its meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, when EIS, based in Dusseldorf, Germany, announced that its "joker.com" domain registry was under DNS attack.
The effects on the half-million domains registered by EIS couldn't immediately be determined.
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