A list of groups identified as having an interest in our bind99 database are listed at the following schedule. http://www.pccf.net/correspondence/bind99/groups_to_invite.txt Formal notice will be provided to group representatives later this month. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 From: J. Baptista To: Sr. Francis Fanego Subject: BIND 1999 Survey and ICANN Support September 6, 1999 Internet Business Associates Group Camino de leganes, Mostoles Madrid Spain via email Attn: Sr. Francis Fanego Dear Sr. Fanego: RE: BIND 1999 Survey and ICANN Support I am following up our telephone conversation of today's date with respect to the BIND 1999 survey and audit of the global domain name infrastructure. To date we have enumerated 224,000 domain name servers and 110,000 hostmaster records. 22,000 or 10% of the servers enumerated are vulnerable to bind attacks as per the CERT Coordination Center advisories CA-96.02.bind, CA-97.22.bind and CA-98.05.bind_problems. The United States Department of Defense (DOD) operates fifteen of these servers. As you know we have contacted the DOD on numerous occasions but have had limited success in resolving those security issues. Five servers appear to have been upgraded but the remainder is still vulnerable to the hack. I will make one more attempt to notify the U.S. military and the hostmasters of record that these security issues exist and should be immediately fixed. If the DOD fails to upgrade and correct the problems within a respectable period, then I see no reason to further delay publication of the database. I advise we give them a month's grace before initiating public access. With respect to your directions that we use the BIND 1999 database to provide ICANN and the DNSO with assistance and support in organizing stakeholder consensus. I can report that we will be in a position to initiate your directives this October. I will proceed to contact ICANN and the DNSO general assembly and advise them of your generous contribution to their effort. Furthermore, in accordance with your instructions, I will also initiate contact with existing root server confederations. I will ask them to participate with ICANN and the DNSO in promoting their respective concerns to the dns hostmasters of record who control the root.cache files. I hope this meets with your approval and should you have any question or concerns please advise. In closing, I would like to thank IBAG's membership for supporting PCCF and the NSOA in our goal of achieving a secure Internet. Sincerely, J. Baptista, Director -- Planet Communication & Computing Facility [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Access Internet Research Publisher 1 (212) 894-3704 ext. 1033