Verisign vs. ICANN

Fri Jun 18 18:25:49 UTC 2004

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:58:00AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> > > ...  i'm not a defendant, just a named co-conspirator.
> > 
> > Hah? Are they also naming individually all the dns operators that installed 
> > bind patch and specifically enabled it so that wildcards would not work?
> 
> the lawsuit doesn't mention the bind patch.  they seem to be upset about my
> work on the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee.  what their
> "First Amended Complaint" says about me is that:
> 
>         Paul Vixie is a Site Finder co-conspirator [...].  
> 
>         Paul Vixie is an existing provider of competitive services for
>         registry operations, including providing TLD domain name hosting
>         services for ccTLDs and gTLDs, and a competitor of VeriSign for
>         new registry operations.  [...]
> 
> (y'know, i'd pay Real Money for Adobe Acrobat Professional for SuSE 9.1/amd64,
> by which i could scan-convert PDF files instead of typing in stuff by hand --
> my win32 laptop has more than 70 days of downtime and i'm going for 3 digits.)
> 
> verisign's official position throughout the sitefinder launch was that "users
> are free to disable it if they want to."  they did NOT want this characterized
> as them shoving their sitefinder service down anybody's unwilling throat.  so
> i don't expect any action to occur against folks who installed a BIND patch.

Um, unless I really missed something during this whole episode, that
was the only way TO disable it.

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Wayne Bouchard
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