[73192] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign vs. ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Mon Aug 16 15:23:46 2004
In-Reply-To: <41210642.1070901@nrg4u.com>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:17:48 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Aug 16, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> PS: I will patent it myself to prevent Versign from doing this.
And if they do, what's to stop the root operators from doing this.
Remember, there are 13 IPs no one can get around - no other "TLD" to
register your domain name.
Flipped on its head, what's to stop the root operators from
circumventing anything Verisign or any other TLD operator does?
--
TTFN,
patrick
