[63541] in North American Network Operators' Group
VeriSign list (was: sitefinder ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Tue Oct 7 09:27:18 2003
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:27:06 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mark Kosters wrote:
>
> In the interest in gaining more community review and comment, a discussion
> list has been setup to discuss factually-based technical issues
> and solutions surrounding the operational impact of wildcards in
> top-level domains on Internet applications.
>
We already have such mailing lists.
1) for technical "specification of message formats, message handling,
and data formats used for DNS client-server and server-server
communication": http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/
A lively moderated discussion of wildcards is already underway.
2) for "[i]ssues surrounding the operation of DNS, recommendations
concerning the configuration of DNS servers, and other issues with
the use of the protocol": http://ops.ietf.org/lists/ops-area/
> VeriSign technical people will participate in discussions that are within
> the scope for this mailing list.
>
VeriSign technical people should have participated elsewhere, and this
mess might have been less likely to occur.
I will not participate in a VeriSign sponsored list, as that might
give fodder for another "press release" claiming network operators and
designers had reviewed and approved the VeriSign changes. I recommend
that others only join neutral unaffiliated discussion lists.
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William Allen Simpson
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