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Verisign on Process
- From: Howard C. Berkowitz
- Date: Wed Oct 08 14:25:00 2003
Both here and in private mail, people have been talking about
Verisign's view of the process. Unfortunately, I was only able to
attend the afternoon part of yesterday's ICANN ISSC committee meeting.
But Declan McCullough was there, and picked up an interesting quote
from Verisign:
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5088128.html
Legal and policy questions were not on the agenda, and VeriSign
representatives repeatedly objected when the discussion veered in
that direction.
"Are we going to focus on security and stability, or usability?"
asked VeriSign's Ben Turner, saying the committee's mandate was too
narrow to include broader questions about Site Finder.
Stephen Crocker, one of the Internet's original architects and the
ICANN committee's chairman, asked VeriSign why the wild card was
introduced without giving network operators any warning. "I know for
a fact that VeriSign has no problem finding its way to those
(technical discussion) forums," Crocker said, referring to the
company's ongoing participation in them.
"I don't want to go beyond the agenda," replied Chuck Gomes,
VeriSign's vice president for its registry service. Citing concerns
of proprietary information and competitive advantage, he added that
he didn't think he could guarantee any advance notice of similar
changes in the future.
Gomes' position truly bothers me if a registry, given that it meets
the formal definition of a technical monopoly, is planning around
competitive advantage.
Other speakers pointed out that the functionality of Sitefinder could
be implemented at the edge, not breaking the end-to-end assumption
and still allowing innovation. Internet Explorer, for example, has
such functionality.
MS and VS. Reminds me of some recent wars where observers were sad
that only one side could lose. :-)
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