While generally lauding ICANN's effort, experts say that more is needed to address the use of fast-flux hosting by bot herders to rapidly shift their malicious web servers and domain-name servers from machine to machine to evade detection.
"People are being impacted because they are trying to shoehorn a solution that doesn't fit the problem. Where fast-flux causes a problem is when you are trying to police the internet through some outdated mode like honeypotting or blacklisting. That just doesn't work in this environment," says one security researcher.
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I know Randy Abrams and I know Mary Landesman. They are good people and raise solid concerns.
I brought this topic to the forefront and got it the attention, on CircleID as well. Now, while not being the foremost expert--nor do I claim to be, I am one of the few:
I helped with the ICANN SSAC document(formerly anonymously), and while if change happens remains to be seen, Dave Piscitello's work is top notch and I vouch for it, for whoever that means something.