[71581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign vs. ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Fri Jun 18 14:33:49 2004
In-Reply-To: <20040618182549.GA1350@typo.org>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:31:08 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
>> verisign's official position throughout the sitefinder launch was
>> that "users
>> are free to disable it if they want to." they did NOT want this
>> characterized
>> as them shoving their sitefinder service down anybody's unwilling
>> throat. so
>> i don't expect any action to occur against folks who installed a BIND
>> patch.
>
> Um, unless I really missed something during this whole episode, that
> was the only way TO disable it.
Have the roots recurse and put a wildcard in for anything that does not
resolve.
Makes Paul a ... well, not a competitor, 'cause that would imply they
were in competition. If the roots put in the wild card, the GTLDs
cannot compete.
--
TTFN,
patrick
