[63348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VeriSign Capitulates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Mehl)
Fri Oct 3 16:00:11 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:57:57 -0400
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog@blank.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In the immortal words of Tim Wilde (twilde@dyndns.org):
>
> And they act like they're the victims. Amazing.
>
> "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."
What's that bit about the definiton of `chutzpah?' The parricide who
throws himself on the court's mercy as an orphan?
Oddly enough, ICANN gave them exactly as much of a hearing as they
gave ICANN, the IETF and pretty much everyone else in the world before
they foisted this abomination on us. My heart bleeds for them,
really.
-n
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