As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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When you take into account the fact that a large enterprise might have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines, the job of securing those machines is very difficult and keeping them secure over time is even more difficult still.Ed Moyle
There's also usually a black hat contingent at most mainstream security conferences. Since information security and hacking are two sides of the same coin, many hackers go to security conferences and many security professionals go to hacker events -- neither community seems to mind.
Ed Moyle
In Moyle's opinion, a balancing act of sorts is required. Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely, ... Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.
Ed Moyle
If the U. N. intends to softly encourage the transition to IPv6 via policy -- or merely wishes to coordinate or 'track' the deployment of IPv6 over time -- the impact will likely be minimal, ... But if they are going to take a stronger approach -- which they could theoretically do with the new authority -- the impact would once again be tremendous.
Ed Moyle
Some nations remain wary of the U. S. calling the shots. In August, for example, the Bush administration objected to creation of an . xxx domain for adult-content Web sites. Since all ICANN decisions are subject to approval by the U. S. Department of Commerce, President Bush can ultimately decide whether or not to allow that change to proceed, ... No other country has that level of voice in the process.
Ed Moyle
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