North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICANN asks VeriSign to pull redirect service
Worth noting is the follow-up report: http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html and the response from Russell Lewis: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm Mr. Lewis' response is interesting only if you believe VeriSign has the community's interest in mind by implementing this service. If there was any indication that the change had a detrimental effect to the Internet, an Internet-friendly corporation would have suspended service. This quote is also interesting: "This was done after many months of testing and analysis and in compliance with all applicable technical standards" For such a monumental change, one would think VeriSign would have made a concerted effort to receive community feedback prior to implementation. Again, had they the community's interest in mind. On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:12:14 -0400 Haesu <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's been about 2 days since ICANN requested Verisign to stop breaking. > > http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm > > Recognizing the concerns about the wildcard service, ICANN has called > upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various > reviews now underway are completed. > > -hc > > -- > Haesu C. > TowardEX Technologies, Inc. > Consulting, colocation, web hosting, network design and implementation > http://www.towardex.com | [email protected] > Cell: (978)394-2867 | Office: (978)263-3399 Ext. 174 > Fax: (978)263-0033 | POC: HAESU-ARIN > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:37PM -0400, Eric Germann wrote: > > > > > http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1024_3-5079768.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert > > &form=feed&subj=cnetnews > > > > "The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to > > voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own > site > > when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an > > error message. " > > > > > > > > ========================================================================== > > Eric Germann CCTec > > [email protected] Van Wert OH 45891 > > http://www.cctec.com Ph: 419 968 2640 > > Fax: 603 825 5893 > > > > "The fact that there are actually ways of knowing and characterizing the > > extent of one?s ignorance, while still remaining ignorant, may ultimately > be > > more interesting and useful to people than Yarkovsky" > > > > -- Jon Giorgini of NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory > > >
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