SAC062 - ICANN SSAC Advisory Concerning the Mitigation of Name Collision Risk
Venue
ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) Reports and Advisories, ICANN (2013)
Publication Year
2013
Authors
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Abstract
The term “name collision” refers to the situation in which a name that is properly
defined in one operational domain or naming scope may appear in another domain (in
which it is also syntactically valid), where users, software, or other functions in
that domain may misinterpret it as if it correctly belonged there. The
circumstances that may cause this can be accidental or malicious. In the context of
Top Level Domains (TLDs), the conflicting namespaces are the DNS namespace defined
in the root zone as published by the root management partners (ICANN, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA), and
VeriSign) and any privately defined namespace, whether that namespace is defined
only for the Domain Name System (DNS) or is also intended to “work” for other
namespaces such as Active Directory
