[53308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "VeriSign Moves DNS Server To Boost Security"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Wallingford)
Fri Nov 8 20:28:25 2002
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:19:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net>
To: David Diaz <techlist@smoton.net>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p05200f0cb9f2038e6ae7@[65.191.183.8]>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote:
:
:Would that be in front of, or behind Big Red (firewall)?
:
:Seriously...would their policies affect the integrity of the root
:zone server files?
Rhetorical question? :)
Obviously, such a move would be unrealistic if subjective filtering could
affect the viability of J. I'm sure the powers that be in that region
would understand that.
I'm partial to Randy's thoughts regarding trust; though, Hong Kong would
seem, for many (albeit political) reasons to be a better/simpler choice.
IMHO, of course.
:
:At 15:43 -0800 11/8/02, Randy Bush wrote:
:>> The real question isn't why "J" has moved a few miles to a different
:>> Verisign building, but where in the world should "J" move?
:>
:>i have been pushing bejing for a few years. except it would be
:>nice to have built some operational understanding and trust with
:>those folk first, perhaps by asking them to secondary arpa for a
:>while.
:>
:>randy
