[66349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Mason)
Thu Jan 8 07:46:42 2004
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:43:40 +0000
To: Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Ian Mason <nanog@ian.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040107235230.03148218@imbolc.ian.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 00:01 08/01/2004, Ian Mason wrote:
>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.
Whoops, here I sit with egg on my face. My excuse for misreading the date
was it was late in the day here after a busy evening.
I unreservedly apologize for my haste in condemning Verisign and withdraw
my remarks.
I shall now go and penitentially stand in the very heavy rain and wind that
England is enjoying today.
Ian
