[ChineseGP] reference to SAC 60 during coordination call between KoreanGP and ChineseGP

[Sarmad Hussain]

Dear Prof. Kim, All,

 

Here is the relevant text from SSAC's SAC 60 report
(https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-060-en.pdf), as mentioned
during the call today:

 

Recommendation 7: Should ICANN decide to implement safeguards it should seek

to distinguish the following two types of failure modes when a user expects
a variant

to work but it is not implemented:

 

. Denial of service: the user attempts to visit http://example.Y, reading it
as

being the same Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) as the http://example.X

that, for example, he or she saw in an advertisement, but the connection
does

not work (lookup fails) because Y is either blocked, withheld, or X has no

variant at all, and example.Y is not registered.

 

. Misconnection: the user attempts to visit http://example.Y, reading it as
being

the same URI as the http://example.X that, for example, he or she saw in an

advertisement, but arrives at a site controlled by a registrant different to
that of

example.X.

 

The second case is much more dangerous than the first one. In the first
case, the user is

frustrated and may conclude that "the Internet does not work," but no
serious harm has

arisen. The second case is problematic even if this effect is not the result
of malicious

work on the part of Y's operator or example.Y registrant. Misconnections to
a perfectly

legitimate site operating at example.Y present issues of possible credential
compromise

or other accidental disclosure of information in addition to user confusion
and frustration.

 

 

Regards,
Sarmad

 

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