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Site Finder as Starting Point for True Innovation Above DNS

• Comment posted Oct 23, 2003 7:19 am PDT — by James Seng
  I have a discussion with Keith on this between his blog and mine. 1. On DNS Innovtion... 2. Responses on SiteFinder 3.On DNS Innovation ... (continue) ... 4. Oh dear! 5. On DNS Innovation ... (again) ... 6. SiteFinder and…

NAT: Just Say No

• Comment posted Nov 05, 2003 6:32 am PST — by James Seng
  NAT != Security. It gives you certain invisibility, which is like a false sense of security. But it does not mean you are secure.

.Pro Asking for Second-Level Domains (Again)

• Comment posted Nov 07, 2003 3:38 am PST — by James Seng
  the "testbed" goal is really to find out if we can have more TLDs (remember some were arguing back then we can have millions of TLDs?) and more importantly to me, will it bring competition to NSOL. While ICANN have…

• Comment posted Nov 05, 2003 6:38 am PST — by James Seng
  Business environment changes rapidly as do consumer choice. We cannot expect business to start offering unprofitable services just to proof a point. It is better to acknowledge a mistake and fix it quickly.

Phone Always Busy? Must be DDoS on VoIP Network

• Comment posted Jun 19, 2004 3:14 pm PDT — by James Seng
  the view that there are many possible points of failure in a IP network for voice is true but dont overlook there are equally, if not more, possible points of failures in POTS too. POTS are more reliable because of…

10 Reasons Why Involving Government in Spam Control is a Bad Idea

• Comment posted Jul 25, 2004 4:26 am PDT — by James Seng
  I summarise this as "some government are corrupted, and hence, all governents are bad and thus we should stop our government from doing things". The logic begs questioning…

Thoughts on IPv6 Day

• Comment posted Nov 18, 2004 5:43 am PST — by James Seng
  At best, NAT = false sense of security. Security by obscurity does not work. :-)

Internet Management and National Security: Time for a Federal Action Plan

• Comment posted Dec 08, 2004 4:58 pm PST — by James Seng
  Would be useful to google some info on George Tenet. http://www.google.com/search?q=George+Tenet&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Particularly, this gem: http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=George_J._Tenet

Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries?

• Comment posted Dec 30, 2004 2:23 am PST — by James Seng
  Pls do not put words into my mouth: There is a difference between getting it 'right' and getting it 'perfect'. Nothing wrong with the first, but latter is a pipe dream.

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2004 7:23 am PST — by James Seng
  Ram, I would love to hear the "science and logic and rationale" in the arguments for why we cannot have more TLDs[1]. I would love nothing more to argue purely on logic. However, a non-rationale answer would invite a rhetorical…

• Comment posted Dec 19, 2004 5:18 am PST — by James Seng
  One word: Lovely! I was one of the 30-something engineers who "ask" for (IDN) TLD. While I can sense some consensus on stage and off-stage of the need of IDN TLDs, the response I get from 60-something engineers (whose status…

Chinese IDN in the News

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2004 7:14 am PST — by James Seng
  Leo, 1. Have you check who is the chairman of ISC? 2. I'm aware CNIC & CNNIC are two different entity. -James Seng

How to Stop Spam

• Comment posted Jan 25, 2005 3:46 am PST — by James Seng
  Oh my god. I freak out whenever someone mention blocking port 25 as a solution to spam. So you when will they start blocking port 5060 too?

Looking at .Net Bids

• Comment posted Jan 29, 2005 12:24 am PST — by James Seng
  A friend corrected me that Sentan Registry also promised 100% DNS resolution. Sentan registry is a joint venture between JPRS & Neustar.

IDN and Homographs Spoofing

• Comment posted Feb 18, 2005 12:07 am PST — by James Seng
  Update: Found a better reference to the idea Mark Davis proposed back in 2002.

• Comment posted Feb 09, 2005 2:45 am PST — by James Seng
  Update: Mark Davis poined out a UTR #36 Security Consideration for Implementation of Unicode and other Related Technologies. Ben Laurie pointed out I have incorrectly attribute the IDN spoofing to Securnia - it was Eric Johnson.

NTIA Nixes Privacy Protection in Whois

• Comment posted Feb 13, 2005 1:09 am PST — by James Seng
  Milton, How do you expect ICANN to tell NITA what to do with .us as much as ICANN can tell SGNIC what to do with .sg?

How India's .IN Domain Rouses from its Slumber

• Comment posted Apr 01, 2005 7:46 am PST — by James Seng
  Ram, congz with the successful .IN implementation.

Story Behind .ASIA

• Comment posted Apr 15, 2005 4:10 am PDT — by James Seng
  Che-Hoo, maybe you cant answer those behind-the-scene question so let me asked you a few open one: 1. Have you spoken to any other alt. registry operators? Say Neustar or Verisign? Have you check with them what they offering? Have…

• Comment posted Apr 15, 2005 3:58 am PDT — by James Seng
  Che-Hoo, why not tell the rest of the story too? Like who spoke to you back in the late 2003 to get you to start working on this? Or who paid for all the trip to all the one-on-one meeting…

More on Story Behind .ASIA

• Comment posted Apr 19, 2005 8:53 am PDT — by James Seng
  My objection is in the *form* of .ASIA - of how is it been put together. We have to asked ourselves if it is *really* community driven - on the surface it is, but for those who witness the foundation,…

Do We Really Need IDN?

• Comment posted May 09, 2005 2:24 am PDT — by James Seng
  CircleID published the homographs attacks on IDN and altho it is a big blow to those who wanted IDN, it was well-recieved and the technical community responded with technical solution. The point is the article is no more the FUD…

• Comment posted May 07, 2005 2:01 am PDT — by James Seng
  Ah, I got asked who you work for by a few people - I realized you didn't say it outright in your profile. Why hide? You work for Netpia, the largest keyword provider for Korea. Your boss is Kangsik Cheon,…

• Comment posted May 07, 2005 1:23 am PDT — by James Seng
  Pls do not put words in my mouth. If you want to use my quotes, please quote what I said exactly. And I never say anything to the effect there is no alternatives. Netpia would certainly not benefit if &…

Neustar and .GPRS

• Comment posted Oct 04, 2005 2:23 am PDT — by James Seng
  Additional Note: the current .grps operated by GSMA are not ENUM based btw. It is a private tree to look up SGSN for GPRS tunnels. 

Chinese Alternate Root as a New Beginning and Real Internet Governance

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 1:21 pm PST — by James Seng
  Calling a mule a horse x 100 wont make it a horse :)

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 02, 2006 1:41 am PST — by James Seng
  The timing of the launch of the 3 Chinese "TLD" is important because 3 years ago, we have no IDN standard and no ICANN process for IDN. The popular way to introduce IDN back then is using what we called…

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 4:14 am PST — by James Seng
  It is not an alternative root because there is no "root" being setup. And the ISPs continue to use the same default (IANA) root that ship with BIND.

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 3:18 am PST — by James Seng
  I just posted this on IPer where the news is spreading. I hope everyone calm down. --- Hi Dave, Just saw this news and find it funny because I just had dinner with Mao Wei and Prof. Qian last night…

A Day Which Will Live in Infamy: ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Settlement

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 9:23 am PST — by James Seng
  Why is settlement bad? Or you rather ICANN and Verisign fight in court spending millions of legal fees to fight a case which is hard to say which side will win? More importantly, the last thing we (the community) and…

Internationalizing the Internet

• Comment posted Nov 22, 2006 3:34 am PST — by James Seng
  I left my comments on my blog but let me make two quick note: 1. On DNAME, I wasnt a big fan of using DNAME. I think ICANN is misguided that the DNS infrastructure cannot support too many TLDs and…

Domain Registrars Releasing Suspended Domains to Attackers

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 8:15 pm PDT — by James Seng
  If you have an idea of how to prevent criminals from using DNS without affecting innocent party (false positive), I would be interested to hear it. You have underestimate the difficulty to do a list (any list). Technically, ICANN manages…

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 6:41 pm PDT — by James Seng
  any list, whether white or black, is going to be politically challenging: How does one get onto that list? how do you get off the list? Who control that list? Why this list and not another list? The time and…

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 3:50 pm PDT — by James Seng
  What do you think ICANN should do? Freeze these names indefinitely? The attackers could easily switch to IP without using domain names easily and still carry out the attack. I dont see this as an ICANN issue really - it…