requesting hard data sources on ramifications of verisign wildcard
Eric A. Hall
ehall at ehsco.com
Thu Oct 16 20:57:06 UTC 2003
on 10/16/2003 2:26 PM k claffy wrote:
> caida has the following request on behalf of icann's secsac committee
> a common theme over the last week is an admitted lack of hard data
> [rather than lists of theoretical breakages, and anecdotal evidence,
> and predictions] from the operational community on actual loss of
> stability in Internet performance or functionality.
VeriSign's response to the IAB confirms actual breakage, but dismisses
this acknowledgement by claiming that the breakages are insignificantly
minor to the Internet community as a whole.
This is fodder for the canonical political issue -- the original generic
TLDs are public resources, and have operational and management
requirements which are significantly more stringent than private TLDs.
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