[62794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign Responds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Mon Sep 22 21:36:15 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:36:38 -0400
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030923012307.GA59926@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Even better,
<start quote>
All indications are that users, important members of the internet community
we all serve, are benefiting from the improved web navigation offered by
Site Finder
<end quote>
This reminds me of the Iraqi Information minister and his lunatic
counterfactual arguments.... All indications indeed!
---Mike
At 09:23 PM 22/09/2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm
>
>I quote:
>
>] As to your call for us to suspend the service, I would respectfully
>] suggest that it would be premature to decide on any course of action
>] until we first have had an opportunity to collect and review the
>] available data.
>
>One would think it would be equally premature to roll out the service
>without first asking the appropriate people for their opinion first,
>starting with ICANN.
>
>Looks like the lawsuits are going to be the ones to settle this
>dispute...anyone think there's a chance of ICANN pulling .COM and .NET
>from Verisign due to breach of contract? I think it's highly unlikely.
>
>--
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