News coverage, Verisign etc.

Wed Oct 8 19:54:12 UTC 2003

>In these days of corporate malfeasance scandal coverage, you'd think that
>Verisign's tactics would have whetted the appetite of some bright
>investigative reporter for one of the major publications.

For all that I'm critical of wildcards in TLDs -- I spoke at the 
meeting yesterday, and my slides are on my Web page -- I don't think 
there are any issues of malfeasance.  No one has been looting 
Verisign's coffers, they're not cooking the books, etc.  I see three 
issues:  is this technically wise, did Verisign have the right to do 
this under their current contract with ICANN, and should they have such 
a right.  I don't see anything resembling dishonesty.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb