A panel of DNS biggies (Esther Dyson as chair, then Mark Foster of Neustar; Bret Fausett, a lawyer/iCANN guy; Paul Mockapetris of Nominum, Inc.; Richard sdfasdfm (not "Richard Forman," as advertised) of Register.com, and Elliott Noss of Tucows.
Nikolaj started the ball rolling by giving Mark Foster a hard time over a Forbes magazine article relative to Neustar CEO Jeffrey Ganek’s plan to mine the database of all North American phone numbers and phone calls.
Brett Glass pushes on the use of whois as a spammer’s source for email addresses. At this, Esther scolds the panel and the audience that “spam is not the problem—privacy is the problem” (Elliott says that Esther likes spam).
Ken Klingenstein comes back and asks the panel about federation (that’s one of the big words at the conference). The panelists seem positive about the prospects of federation.
Good, but not hypnotically fascinating panel. Elliott was especially helpful.
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