[63555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign's public opinion play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Tue Oct 7 13:50:20 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:34:44 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> we're only upset because Verisign makes money off of this.
I'm sure that is a factor too.
Verisign have a contract to operate a shared registry, as a monopoly is
unreasonable, but hijack it to make a different service that nobody
else gets to bid for running.
If such a service were a feasible use of this public resource
there'd be an open process to bid for running it and some of
the rewards would go to public services in return for that
lease
brandon
