Does ICANN = IWILL?
Given that the working group took more than six months to conclude that the issue is complex, it should come as no surprise that the body’s list of “possible next steps” involve a great deal of additional discussion, redefinition, and exploration of whether or not someone else is better suited to address the problem. This last issue is by no means settled; several of the groups that appended comments to the initial report (Annex III, 58/121) admitted that fast flux hosting as it is used by illegal companies or groups is a problem, but vehemently opposed the idea that ICANN had any authority to deal with the problem. The Registry Constituency issued a unanimous response in which it argued that: “ICANN’s purview with regard to making policy to mitigate criminal use of the DNS is very limited, and technical… It is not within ICANN’s purview to place gTLD registries in a position to become extensions of law enforcement regimes around the world, by requiring registries to take action agai
