Verisign Responds

Tue Sep 23 19:36:16 UTC 2003

At 11:47 AM -0700 9/23/03, bmanning at karoshi.com wrote:
>	lets try this again... why should a valid DNS protocol element
>	be made illegal in some parts of the tree and not others?
>	if its bad one place, why is it ok other places?

There's a simple answer and a not so simple.  The simple answer is 
because in one part of the tree it was expected by all players up 
front, and in the other it wasn't.  However in general I tend to 
agree.  The things that Verisign broke (and which have cost my 
company several thousand dollars in lost time and unplanned 
programming tasks, never mind the increase in spam) are also broken 
by other TLDs that use wildcards.  The issues weren't clear because 
the impact was small.  Now that they are clear, those decisions 
should also be revisited.
-- 
Kee Hinckley
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http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/  Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.