[66324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Mason)
Wed Jan 7 19:37:30 2004
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:01:23 +0000
To: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Ian Mason <nanog@ian.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040107224623.GS26806@chinook.rgy.netsol.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:46:23 -0500, Matt Larson wrote:
>VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
>format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on
>or shortly after 9 February 2004.
[snip]
> But because these
>zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet
>community know about the changes in advance.
Matt, was it not possible for Verisign to give more than 30 hours notice of
these changes? This is an Internet-wide change that will very likely break
some systems somewhere. Surely more notice would have been reasonable.
The notice actually given is so short as to be almost worthless. It might
have raised Verisign's moral stock around here if more notice had been
given, or even some consultation issued. As it is, Verisign seem to have
moved in a way that, yet again, is likely to convince the community of
Verisign's apparent arrogance and contempt towards the rest of us. Sad.
