Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Thu Oct 16 20:55:13 UTC 2003


The two options are not mutually exclusive, and, since Verisign has
chosen to turn this into a press-battle, I think it would be good not
to ignore that battlefield.

Owen


--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 14:56 -0400 Chris Strandt 
<strandtc at liquidweb.com> wrote:

>
> Maybe a "vote" at the end of the presentation would be better.
>
> After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see
> what the participants think of starting Site Finder again.
>
> Its not as press worthy... but it lets Verisign have their say, and gives
> the community a voice right there on the spot on the issue.
>
> -Chris
>
> Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
>
>> Just a brief statement that kinda goes without saying but I'll say it
>> anyway.
>>
>>
>> Although I'm not going to be there personally, I do intend to watch
>> the netcast.
>>
>> I would just ask (and I'm sure merit folks share this) that despite
>> the actions that have been taken by verisign and the conflicts etc,
>> that people please be curteous and not just outright harrass their
>> representatives but allow them to make their presentation as they
>> intend. (The last thing we need to do is lend credence to the
>> statements that have been made in the press regarding this community.)
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:59AM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and
>>> distribution committee.
>>>
>>> To recap:  At NANOG 29 in Chicago, on Monday October 20th at 9:15 am a
>>> session on "VeriSign's Wildcard Record: Effects and Responses" will be
>>> held, with Mark Kosters and Matt Larson from VeriSign and Suzanne Woolf
>>> from ISC:
>>>
>>> <http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/dns.html>
>>>
>>> If you are attending NANOG 29, please attend this session and wear a
>>> red  shirt.  If possible, please buy/bring a tomato.  Take your tomato
>>> to the  front of the room and place them in a pile before Verisign, to
>>> make it  absolutely clear how you feel about Verisign's wildcards and
>>> sitefinder.  Please do not throw your tomatoes.
>>>
>>> I wish I could be there!
>>>
>>> Now to make sure that someone with clue from the Chicago Sun Times and
>>> the  Chicago Tribune are both there, with photographers.  Does anyone
>>> on this  list have any contacts at either of these papers?
>>>
>>> jc
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ---
>> Wayne Bouchard
>> web at typo.org
>> Network Dude
>> http://www.typo.org/~web/
>>
>>
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