[119700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Thu Nov 26 15:56:59 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:55:49 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091126182548.GB4965@dan.olp.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Dan White wrote:
> On 26/11/09 07:37 -0800, David Conrad wrote:
>> There are folks on this list who work for ISPs which are doing
>> wildcards/synthesis/etc. They (or, more likely their management) can
>> tell you there are obvious business reasons why they do
>> wildcards/synthesis/etc. Perhaps I'm overly cynical, but I suspect
>> that until those business reasons go away, shining a flash light will
>> probably just result in more ISPs implementing wildcards/synthesis/etc.
>
> That's a disagreement we'll have to have. Anytime this issue has been
> brought
> up in a public setting (here, slashdot, etc.) has resulted in terrible
> press
> and even corrective action. In particular, Network Solutions' attempt to
> at this at the .com level was corrected. Of course I don't know what, if
> any, ICANN pressure has to do with that, but the flash light practice was
> apparently successful.
I do know what, if any, ICANN pressure had to do with that. The pressure
on ICANN was real, and the pressure ICANN put on VGRS was sufficient.
Eric
