[64130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Thu Oct 16 13:06:09 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:04:52 -0700
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F8E6B53.9080005@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Ouch.
>http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html
>
>VeriSign to revive redirect service
>by Declan McCullagh
>
>VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a
>controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many
>.com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday.
I'm not going to be at NANOG in Chicago next Monday (October 20th), but if
I were, I'd be in the foyer Monday morning with a few crates of tomatoes,
selling individual tomatoes.
If everyone who attends NANOG goes to the 9:15 session on Monday morning
<http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/dns.html>
and takes a single large tomato into the session with them, that this will
make a VISIBLE sign to Verisign. It will make for a great photo
opportunity, and turn this issue into something that the ordinary press can
more easily explain to the non-technical Internet using masses. I also
suggest that people wear red shirts on Monday. Enable the press to write
about how Network Operators obviously and visibly *demonstrated* their
unhappiness with Verisign. Try "Network Operators are seeing Red over
Sitefinder" or "Verisign gets pelted with tomatoes over Sitefinder" as a
headline. Note: I'm not actually suggesting that people pelt Verisign
representatives with the tomatoes, you could just individually walk up to
the front of the room and put your tomatoes in a pile where they can be
seen. A pile of 500 tomatoes that are brought there individually, each
tomato representing the opinion of a NANOG participant, *will* make an impact.
jc
