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Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Thu Oct 16 13:56:03 2003


I like it. I'm game.

Owen


--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:04 AM -0700 JC Dill <[email protected]> wrote:

At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

Ouch.

http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html

VeriSign to revive redirect service
by Declan McCullagh

VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a
controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many
.com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday.
I'm not going to be at NANOG in Chicago next Monday (October 20th), but
if I were, I'd be in the foyer Monday morning with a few crates of
tomatoes, selling individual tomatoes.

If everyone who attends NANOG goes to the 9:15 session on Monday morning

<http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/dns.html>

and takes a single large tomato into the session with them, that this
will make a VISIBLE sign to Verisign.  It will make for a great photo
opportunity, and turn this issue into something that the ordinary press
can more easily explain to the non-technical Internet using masses.  I
also suggest that people wear red shirts on Monday.  Enable the press to
write about how Network Operators obviously and visibly *demonstrated*
their unhappiness with Verisign.  Try "Network Operators are seeing Red
over Sitefinder" or "Verisign gets pelted with tomatoes over Sitefinder"
as a headline.  Note:  I'm not actually suggesting that people pelt
Verisign representatives with the tomatoes, you could just individually
walk up to the front of the room and put your tomatoes in a pile where
they can be seen.  A pile of 500 tomatoes that are brought there
individually, each tomato representing the opinion of a NANOG
participant, *will* make an impact.

jc