[Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

Thu Oct 16 17:18:22 UTC 2003

I like it.  I'm game.

Owen

--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:04 AM -0700 JC Dill 
<nanog at vo.cnchost.com> wrote:

>
> At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> Ouch.
>
>> http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html
>>
>> VeriSign to revive redirect service
>> by Declan McCullagh
>>
>> VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a
>> controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many
>> .com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday.
>
> I'm not going to be at NANOG in Chicago next Monday (October 20th), but
> if I were, I'd be in the foyer Monday morning with a few crates of
> tomatoes, selling individual tomatoes.
>
> If everyone who attends NANOG goes to the 9:15 session on Monday morning
>
> <http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/dns.html>
>
> and takes a single large tomato into the session with them, that this
> will make a VISIBLE sign to Verisign.  It will make for a great photo
> opportunity, and turn this issue into something that the ordinary press
> can more easily explain to the non-technical Internet using masses.  I
> also suggest that people wear red shirts on Monday.  Enable the press to
> write about how Network Operators obviously and visibly *demonstrated*
> their unhappiness with Verisign.  Try "Network Operators are seeing Red
> over Sitefinder" or "Verisign gets pelted with tomatoes over Sitefinder"
> as a headline.  Note:  I'm not actually suggesting that people pelt
> Verisign representatives with the tomatoes, you could just individually
> walk up to the front of the room and put your tomatoes in a pile where
> they can be seen.  A pile of 500 tomatoes that are brought there
> individually, each tomato representing the opinion of a NANOG
> participant, *will* make an impact.
>
> jc
>
>