Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop:
- Emerging Issues
- Security, Openness and Privacy
Main theme question address by workshop: Emerging Issues: #1, #2; Security/Openness: #2, #3.
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
The Internet Domain Name System (DNS) is the world's first distributed, reliable, autonomous, heirarchical, coherent database, and it is the authoritative map and guide to the Internet -- which is in turn humanity's global commons. Control of DNS is seen by many as control of the Internet itself, with the additional prospect of influencing global commerce and culture. For others, filtering of DNS content is an essential element of network and end-user security.
This workshop will explore the state of the art of blocking or filtering the content of the DNS as it is seen by some population -- whether an entire country, an enterprise or university, or just the customers of an Internet Service Provider. Discussion topics will include:
* Current methods for implementing DNS filters
* Cultural motivations such as blocking controversial top level domains
* Commercial motivations such as blocking lookups for web sites trafficking in counterfeit or pirated goods
* Security motivations such as blocking lookups for malicious web sites
* Impact of government-mandated DNS filtering
* Current methods for bypassing or circumventing DNS filters
* Likely future innovations and developments in this area
Background material for this workshop will be the ICANN SSAC report on DNS Blocking and Filtering, to be published Summer 2012.
Background Paper:
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Paul Vixie, ICANN SSAC, ARIN, ISC
Andrei Robachevsky, ISOC
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshops2011View&wspid=180
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposalsReports2010View&wspid=141
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
David Conrad, ICANN SSAC
Robert Guerra, ICANN SSAC, Citizen Lab
Jaap Akkerhuis, ICANN SSAC, NLNet labs
Markus Kummer, ISOC
Ram Mohan, ICANN SSAC, Afilias
Name of Remote Moderator(s):
TBC