Verisign vs. ICANN

Henry Linneweh hrlinneweh at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 18 20:21:18 UTC 2004


It is amazing that one psrson Paul Vixie could be so
intimidating that he must be intimidated and maligned
as a conspirator in order to eliminate him as a
potential threat because of his knowledge.....

I find that pretty ironic that a billion dollar
corporation is that weak.

-Henry

--- Patrick W Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard
> wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Have the roots recurse and put a wildcard in for
> anything that does not 
> resolve.
> 
> Makes Paul a ... well, not a competitor, 'cause that
> would imply they 
> were in competition.  If the roots put in the wild
> card, the GTLDs 
> cannot compete.
> 
> -- 
> TTFN,
> patrick
> 
> 




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