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Richard - Do they (Verisign) have any legal reason to??? - is there anything between them and ANY of their clients that requires them to inform them before any changes to protocol facilities are made - I think not. Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Welty" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: Re[2]: data request on Sitefinder > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:45 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to > > pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm > > trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers -- how > > much lead time do you need to make such changes safely? > > may i suggest another operational issue then? > > how does verisign plan to identify and notify all affected parties when changes > are proposed? > > for example, in the current case, how do they plan to identify every party running > postfix and inform them that they need to upgrade their MTA? > > this seems non-trivial to me. > > richard > -- > Richard Welty [email protected] > Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 > Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security >
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