[p2p-hackers] .p2p domain

[Ray Dillinger]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:23 -0800, David Barrett wrote:

> But any real system needs some ability for *somebody* to revoke/change 
> the mapping (eg, if a trademark violation in the jurisdiction of the TLD 
> owner), so any real system is no better than the current one in terms of 
> defense against government seizure.

Agreed, FWIW. It's not the place of DNS to try to defend against
government seizure.  What we need to be preventing is criminal
authentication fraud -- that is, when someone follows a false DNS 
record and winds up at a site that pretends to be the registrant's 
site, but which is not in fact controlled by the registrant. 

At this point every spammer and malware author in the world has a 
CA root key or two; and the CA's themselves never check crap, they 
just collect the money and sign whatever for whoever.  And DNS 
nodes often accept "updates" that originate with criminals rather 
than registrants, and cannot be traced - so the extant 
authentication mechanisms are deeply broken.  It's hard to imagine 
a proper fix that will work for the people and institutions whose 
cooperation would be required to implement it. 

				Bear






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