[63337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the gauntlet is thrown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Oct 3 12:52:54 2003
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <x44qyqmg51.fsf@footbone.midwestcs.com> from "wayne" at Oct 03, 2003 11:37:30 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
>
> > 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.
VeriSlime might do lots of bad things....
But, I doubt it would take all that long for armed federal
knuckledraggers with a federal court order to show up at their
door, if push comes to shove.... ICANN/DOC may well have been
to see His Honor already in an ex-parte hearing.
(We would not even need Tom Ridge; just tell Ashcroft there are
pictures of nekked wimmen involved and he'll lead the charge.)
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