[62250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Wed Sep 17 01:01:18 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:55:59 -0400
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200309170446.h8H4kXYe005459@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:46 AM 17/09/2003, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:38:14 EDT, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> said:
>
> > I trust your assessment of the DNS techs. But what about the DNS tech's
> > bosses? They ordered some pretty lumpy things be done with .com and .net.
> > Given that track record, whats to stop them from ordering the GTLD techs
> > from doing something equally lumpy.
>
>
>To pull a stunt like that at the root, they'd have to get the OTHER 9 or 10
>organizations to buy in, or they'd find themselves outvotes 13 servers to 2,
>or whatever the exact numbers are....
Yes, I understand that. But based on their recent actions I dont feel
anyone should trust Verisign to act towards any of the Internet community's
best interests let alone 1/13th of its core functionality. I think there
is a fundamental breaking of trust here. (IMHO anyways)
---Mike
