Louis Touton is Vice President and General Counsel of ICANN. ICANN has had a root server advisory committee from early days, working on root server placement to improve resilience; the security and stability advisory committee was created in the wake of 9/11 and has increased the priority of root server security evaluation. At 09:10 AM 11/23/2002 -0500, Joe Baptista wrote: >The attack, however, should come as no surprise to ICANN (Internet >Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the Department of Commerce >contractor responsible for root security. Over the years, ICANN has been >warned that the existing root infrastructure was vulnerable to attack, but >the warnings have been largely ignored. Now, however, ICANN President >Louis Touton insists that the attacks "make it important to have increased >focus on the need for security and stability of the Internet." ICANN's >Security and Stability Advisory Committee quickly moved in to investigate >the incident. The committee is expected to produce a report on securing >the edge of the USG Domain Name System network. Vint Cerf SVP Architecture & Technology WorldCom 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax