Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

Thu Jan 8 12:43:40 UTC 2004

At 00:01 08/01/2004, Ian Mason wrote:

>At Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:46:23 -0500, Matt Larson wrote:
>
>>VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
>>format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on
>>or shortly after 9 February 2004.
>
>[snip]
>
>>   But because these
>>zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet
>>community know about the changes in advance.
>
>Matt, was it not possible for Verisign to give more than 30 hours notice 
>of these changes? This is an Internet-wide change that will very likely 
>break some systems somewhere. Surely more notice would have been reasonable.
>
>The notice actually given is so short as to be almost worthless. It might 
>have raised Verisign's moral stock around here if more notice had been 
>given, or even some consultation issued. As it is, Verisign seem to have 
>moved in a way that, yet again, is likely to convince the community of 
>Verisign's apparent arrogance and contempt towards the rest of us. Sad.

Whoops, here I sit with egg on my face. My excuse for misreading the date 
was it was late in the day here after a busy evening.

I unreservedly apologize for my haste in condemning Verisign and withdraw 
my remarks.

I shall now go and penitentially stand in the very heavy rain and wind that 
England is enjoying today.

Ian 