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Neeed a new RFC?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Wed Sep 17 00:50:48 2003

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:46:55 -0700
From: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
To: ">"@redwood-en0.garlic.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030916234134.GW2507@rayw.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


We need a peremptive strike to create our own RFC that says not to do this.

Ray Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:07:21PM -0600, John Neiberger wrote:
> 
>>http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030916/D7TJOF3G0.html
>>--
> 
> 
> my favorite:
>    VeriSign spokesman Brian O'Shaughnessy said Tuesday that individual
>    service providers were free to configure their systems so customers
>    would bypass Site Finder. But he questioned whether releasing a patch
>    to do so would violate Internet standards.
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> What else is there to say?  Any bets that Verisign tries to accuse ISC
> of being a terrorist organization once the patch comes out?  At the least
> a spurious lawsuit seems certain.
> 
> 


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