News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

Wed Sep 17 04:55:59 UTC 2003

At 12:46 AM 17/09/2003, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:38:14 EDT, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>  said:
>
> > I trust your assessment of the DNS techs.  But what about the DNS tech's
> > bosses?  They ordered some pretty lumpy things be done with .com and .net.
> > Given that track record, whats to stop them from ordering the GTLD techs
> > from doing something equally lumpy.
>
>
>To pull a stunt like that at the root, they'd have to get the OTHER 9 or 10
>organizations to buy in, or they'd find themselves outvotes 13 servers to 2,
>or whatever the exact numbers are....

Yes, I understand that.  But based on their recent actions I dont feel 
anyone should trust Verisign to act towards any of the Internet community's 
best interests let alone 1/13th of its core functionality.  I think there 
is a fundamental breaking of trust here. (IMHO anyways)

         ---Mike 