On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> I would like to bring the following to your attention as it may be of
> interest to the Republic of Mauritius.
>
> The .mu Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) is a single point of failure.
> I performed an analysis to determine the security risk to .mu. It was not
> possible to assess the risk given the lack of visibility in the .mu ccTLD.
> The security risk is rated as unknown. The estimated cost of the impact of
> a .mu failure is Rs 41,000,000.
>
> To avoid any appearance of impropriety I'll disclose that I am serving as a
> Cryptographic Officer for the DNS Root Zone and I am the Chair of the .mu
> Select Committee.
>
It has already impacted the image of Mauritius already. Several
businessmen from Europe and US were asking me what was the issue with
.mu during the pre-election days. It was embarassing to explain the
situation to them.
(I'll disclose that I am one of the developers of BIND and NSD, which
power an overwhelming number of Internet Domain Servers today.)
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
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Received on Tue Mar 24 2015 - 19:41:08 PST