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

Thu Oct 16 17:35:08 UTC 2003

OK, so who is responsible for bringing the fruit?  Does our registration
fee cover that? :D

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
JC Dill
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:05
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

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