[63625] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News coverage, Verisign etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Oct 8 15:54:52 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: nanog@merit.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 2003 14:32:30 CDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0310081431510.14870-100000@shell.geek.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:54:12 -0400
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>In these days of corporate malfeasance scandal coverage, you'd think that
>Verisign's tactics would have whetted the appetite of some bright
>investigative reporter for one of the major publications.
For all that I'm critical of wildcards in TLDs -- I spoke at the
meeting yesterday, and my slides are on my Web page -- I don't think
there are any issues of malfeasance. No one has been looting
Verisign's coffers, they're not cooking the books, etc. I see three
issues: is this technically wise, did Verisign have the right to do
this under their current contract with ICANN, and should they have such
a right. I don't see anything resembling dishonesty.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
