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Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 16 15:06:05 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:00:28 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>,
JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031016183649.GA74460@typo.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will
sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile
no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really.
I will not throw the tomato at Verisign no matter how much they deserve it.
Wayne is right. For this to have the desired effect, we need to make it
a peaceful and symbolic protest, not a brawl.
Owen
--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:36 -0700 "Wayne E. Bouchard"
<web@typo.org> wrote:
>
> Just a brief statement that kinda goes without saying but I'll say it
> anyway.
>
>
> Although I'm not going to be there personally, I do intend to watch
> the netcast.
>
> I would just ask (and I'm sure merit folks share this) that despite
> the actions that have been taken by verisign and the conflicts etc,
> that people please be curteous and not just outright harrass their
> representatives but allow them to make their presentation as they
> intend. (The last thing we need to do is lend credence to the
> statements that have been made in the press regarding this community.)
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:59AM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
>>
>> Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and
>> distribution committee.
>>
>> To recap: At NANOG 29 in Chicago, on Monday October 20th at 9:15 am a
>> session on "VeriSign's Wildcard Record: Effects and Responses" will be
>> held, with Mark Kosters and Matt Larson from VeriSign and Suzanne Woolf
>> from ISC:
>>
>> <http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/dns.html>
>>
>> If you are attending NANOG 29, please attend this session and wear a red
>> shirt. If possible, please buy/bring a tomato. Take your tomato to the
>> front of the room and place them in a pile before Verisign, to make it
>> absolutely clear how you feel about Verisign's wildcards and
>> sitefinder. Please do not throw your tomatoes.
>>
>> I wish I could be there!
>>
>> Now to make sure that someone with clue from the Chicago Sun Times and
>> the Chicago Tribune are both there, with photographers. Does anyone on
>> this list have any contacts at either of these papers?
>>
>> jc
>
> ---
> Wayne Bouchard
> web@typo.org
> Network Dude
> http://www.typo.org/~web/
