[67819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Feb 23 13:24:11 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 23 Feb 2004 18:22:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040223103337.03532468@riva.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
nanog@riva.net (Randall Pigott) writes:
> I am curious what the operational impact would be to network operators
> if, instead of Verisign using SiteFinder over all com and net, Verisign
> or their technology partner for SiteFinder began coercing a large number
> of independent ISPs and network operators to install their form of DNS
> redirection at the ISP-level, until all or most of the end-users out
> there were getting redirected.
It would be no worse than NEW.NET or any other form of DNS pollution/piracy
(like the alternate root whackos), as long as it was clearly labelled. As
an occasional operator of infrastructure, I wouldn't like the complaint load
I'd see if the customers of such ISP's thought that *I* was inserting the
garbage they were seeing. So I guess my hope is, it'll be "opt-in" with an
explicitly held permission for every affected IP address (perhaps using some
kind of service discount or enhancement as the carrot.)
--
Paul Vixie
