[62813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign Responds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Tue Sep 23 08:35:07 2003
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: goemon@anime.net (Dan Hollis)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 05:34:06 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: dbs@dbscom.com (Dave Stewart), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309222140490.9434-100000@sasami.anime.net> from "Dan Hollis" at Sep 22, 2003 09:43:48 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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>
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dave Stewart wrote:
> > Courts are likely to support the position that Verisign has control of .net
> > and .com and can do pretty much anything they want with it.
>
> ISC has made root-delegation-only the default behaviour in the new bind,
> how about drafting up an RFC making it an absolute default requirement for
> all DNS?
>
> -Dan
That would be making a fundamental change to the DNS
to make wildcards illegal anywhere. Is that what you
want?
--bill
