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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