[63347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VeriSign Capitulates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Oct 3 15:56:38 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:56:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0310031542330.95906@manganese.bos.dyndns.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Tim Wilde wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40241-2003Oct3.html
>
> And they act like they're the victims. Amazing.
Yep, I told you so :-) I said that before this was over, Verisign would
claim they were the victims and a bunch of hooligans on the West Coast
"attacked" their honest and decent plans to help Internet users.
> "Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down
> the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will
> accede to their request while we explore all of our options."
Uhm, was that the same hearing Verisign didn't have prior to instigating
their actions?
