[73976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign vs. ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Thu Sep 9 18:52:21 2004
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:50:43 +1000
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408161240040.31515-100000@sasami.anime.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Dan Hollis wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>
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>>PS: I will patent it myself to prevent Versign from doing this.
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>
>Wouldnt it be beautiful if a bunch of people patented the hell out of
>various ways to exploit dns wildcarding, thus preventing verisign from
>doing anything useful with it at all...
>
>
It would only be useful if those people were also in a position to
vigorously defend said patents when (and if) they were infringed.
/ Mat
