[CPWG] ICANN position on the Facebook outage

[sivasubramanian muthusamy]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 13:11 Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:

> Dear Bill,
>
> I think we've established that how Facebook is running its networks is not
> ICANN's problem, but ICANN should make this clear in some form of blog or
> public posting so as to decline responsibility of the DNS infrastructure in
> this incident. You'll be surprised how many ignorant
>


decision makers might be swayed by arguments
>

I missed that part when I mentioned that ICANN could *examine* this issue.
Now aware of possible distortions.


that such incidents prove that Governments should be running the "critical
> resources".
>




ICANN's business is limited to making sure that TLDs are run in a reliable
> way and there are requirements in ICANN's contracts with gTLD operators.
> But even when it comes to ccTLDS, ICANN's ability to mandate anything is
> severely limited, if at all impossible. One cannot repeat this enough.
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 10/10/2021 01:21, Bill Jouris via CPWG wrote:
>
> Say rather that an organisation such as Facebook is should have a
> thorough design of redundancy.  But, on the evidence, did not.  Perhaps
> some redundancy designed in.  But thorough, it evidently was not.
>
> That said, it isn't clear that their shortcomings are ICANN's problem.  Or
> even ICANN's business.  Any node can go down, and so no longer be
> reachable.  It's not even particularly unusual.  This was more widespread
> than most, but no different in essence.  And no more in need of an ICANN
> response.
>
> Bill Jouris
>
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> On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 12:48 PM, sivasubramanian muthusamy via CPWG
> <cpwg at icann.org> <cpwg at icann.org> wrote:
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