[62783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN asks VeriSign to pull redirect service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Dvorak)
Mon Sep 22 18:20:54 2003
From: John Dvorak <john@dvorak.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:19:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20030922031214.GA84900@scylla.towardex.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Worth noting is the follow-up report:
http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html
and the response from Russell Lewis:
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm
Mr. Lewis' response is interesting only if you believe VeriSign has the
community's interest in mind by implementing this service. If there was any
indication that the change had a detrimental effect to the Internet, an
Internet-friendly corporation would have suspended service.
This quote is also interesting:
"This was done after many months of testing and analysis and in compliance with
all applicable technical standards"
For such a monumental change, one would think VeriSign would have made a
concerted effort to receive community feedback prior to implementation. Again,
had they the community's interest in mind.
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:12:14 -0400
Haesu <haesu@towardex.com> wrote:
>
> It's been about 2 days since ICANN requested Verisign to stop breaking.
>
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm
>
> Recognizing the concerns about the wildcard service, ICANN has called
> upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various
> reviews now underway are completed.
>
> -hc
>
> --
> Haesu C.
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:37PM -0400, Eric Germann wrote:
> >
> >
> http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1024_3-5079768.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert
> > &form=feed&subj=cnetnews
> >
> > "The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to
> > voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own
> site
> > when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an
> > error message. "
> >
> >
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