Kevin, Please take this to ICANN. This is not a technical issue. If you are a business in anywhere in the world who knowingly ignores legal request for other parts of the world _AND_ ignore the “bottom up” community driven ICANN governance processes, then you are an idiot.
www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org/> Barry > On Jul 20, 2026, at 01:01, Kevin Tillery via NANOG <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is indeed. Politics has an annoying tendency to cause technical > problems, the current one being how to protect the DNS from political attack. > > There's nothing new about this - TLS became ubiquitous because of the Snowden > leaks. Nobody said "get this TLS talk off my list because it's political" > > That's why I'm asking if there's something similar people can do to secure > DNS? Probably not at the moment and certainly not easily? > > Although since it isn't about routing I'm not fully sure it's on-topic for > NANOG and might be better suited for somewhere like IETF? > > Kevin > > > On 19 July 2026 18:05:29 CEST, Jay Acuna via NANOG <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 8:08 AM Andy Ringsmuth via NANOG >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> "Appropriate topics include: routing; broad-based engineering >>> problems/issues/solutions; outages; performance measurement; evolving >>> wide-area technologies; exchange points; traffic engineering; operational >>> experience; ISP security; and trouble ticket systems." >> >> The technical issue would be susceptibility of All database to >> tampering by any authorities >> who hold legal supremacy/jurisdiction over whichever person(s) or >> organizations are responsible for specific TLDs, >> or even the actual org responsible for that registry, for any reason, >> against the wishes of the domain holder. >> >> Even if the domain holder exists outside that jurisdiction or can >> legally operate under different rules. >> >> While this can be a serious technical issue; I don't believe there is >> anything network operators can do about it. >> You could consider distributed alternatives such as IPNS of the IPFS >> protocol a cryptographic-based name system, >> Tor hidden services, etc. >> >> Your best option might be to register your own domains under multiple >> ccTLDs while ensuring that there >> is no overlap amongst the registry operators or registrars between any >> of the chosen TLDs and domains. >> >> >>> Andy Ringsmuth >> -- >> -JA >> _______________________________________________ >> NANOG mailing list >> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LZL2ZERUH5FDFUM2ML7R53QRIM46Y3UZ/ > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VL4QKNMCOV4MQIPRQHJOSA43Y6GWSVL4/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7PIXXVN53B5J2PQZAJNJ6JAJ2WG5OP7Q/
