[64142] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Lockwood)
Thu Oct 16 14:04:37 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:35:08 -0700
From: "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood@shastalink.k12.ca.us>
To: "JC Dill" <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>, "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
OK, so who is responsible for bringing the fruit? Does our registration
fee cover that? :D
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
JC Dill
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:05
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]
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=20
>controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many=20
>.com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday.
I'm not going to be at NANOG in Chicago next Monday (October 20th), but
if=20
I were, I'd be in the foyer Monday morning with a few crates of
tomatoes,=20
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=20
make a VISIBLE sign to Verisign. It will make for a great photo=20
opportunity, and turn this issue into something that the ordinary press
can=20
more easily explain to the non-technical Internet using masses. I also=20
suggest that people wear red shirts on Monday. Enable the press to
write=20
about how Network Operators obviously and visibly *demonstrated* their=20
unhappiness with Verisign. Try "Network Operators are seeing Red over=20
Sitefinder" or "Verisign gets pelted with tomatoes over Sitefinder" as a
headline. Note: I'm not actually suggesting that people pelt Verisign=20
representatives with the tomatoes, you could just individually walk up
to=20
the front of the room and put your tomatoes in a pile where they can be=20
seen. A pile of 500 tomatoes that are brought there individually, each=20
tomato representing the opinion of a NANOG participant, *will* make an
impact.
jc
