ICANN day 3
I skipped the ccTLD Technical, I'd done that at Los Angeles and New Delhi, and my interest in ccTLD operational art is narrower now than it was then. Which are IPv6 ready, which are DNSSEC ready, which are offering the xn--hokeymumble.ccTLD form of "International Domain Names" (they turn into strings of Unicode glyphs in your browser, if you're lucky and easily amused), and so on. Instead I'd a series of meetings to vet the technical sense of proposals ...
In the afternoon I attended the Security meeting. In LA "frontrunning" was a big deal, but there was no evidence that it existed, which was amusing. In New Delhi the largest registrars announced that they were doing it "to protect the registrants" (ha!). Mercifully, now the subject areas were more concrete -- registrar impersonation by phishers and much more fun ... "the issues, unanticipated consequences, and security vulnerabilities that result when a name service provider intercepts a "non-existent domain (NXDOMAIN)" response and modifies that response to redirect the client resolver to an alternative IP address."
At the end of the day I was happy to give the rare invitation to cocktails at the Au Toit de La Grande Arche to a potential partner from one of the Celtic linguistic and cultural proposing groups. I was bushed after a day of meetings with new TLD proposants, some with more negatives than positives, some worth following up on. I'd dinner with Amadeu Abril y Abril and his wife Marta and Mar, their beautiful daughter, who could say "mama" and "dada" and "ola" and point to "ecce" (me) and point to herself.
