[63357] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VeriSign Capitulates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Fri Oct 3 16:58:10 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:57:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310031553200.18788-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
## On 2003-10-03 15:56 -0400 Sean Donelan typed:
SD>
SD>
SD> > "Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down
SD> > the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will
SD> > accede to their request while we explore all of our options."
SD>
SD> Uhm, was that the same hearing Verisign didn't have prior to instigating
SD> their actions?
Why should they need a hearing ?
IMHO the ICANN demand is only to remove the wildcard DNS pointers to the
"Site Finder" service and they're completely free to point say "*.verisign.com"
to their "Site Finder" (Which they're free to leave running as long as
they want ;-)
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Regards,
Rafi
