[63334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the gauntlet is thrown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wayne)
Fri Oct 3 12:38:17 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: wayne <wayne@midwestcs.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:37:30 -0500
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In <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310031146010.18172-100000@clifden.donelan.com> Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> writes:
> While any reasonable person would know what ICANN asked Verisign to do,
> any prediction whether Verisign will adopt a passive-agressive posture
> and inteprete the letter in a way to cause maximum disruption to all
> users of the Internet and then blame ICANN?
>
> ICANN told us to roll back the .COM/.NET zones to September 15 and stop
> making changes; so we deleted all domain names registered after September
> 15 and undid all changes.
Given that ICANN is using the clauses in their contract with VeriSlime
to demand the removal of the wildcards, I suspect that any such move
by VeriSlime would trigger Bad Legal Things for VeriSlime.
-wayne
