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Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

  • From: Stephane Bortzmeyer
  • Date: Thu Jan 08 05:56:44 2004 
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:43:01PM -0800,
 Martin J. Levy <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 9 lines which said:

> I believe there have been 26 (opps, now 27) responses to this
> announcement in the last 2 hours 45 minutes, that's about one response
> every 6 minutes.

This is normal and reasonable sensitivity, taking into account the way
Verisign handled the introduction of wildcards.

For very minor changes, they tell the 200 technical zealots
<URL:http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?f=articles/2003/12/14c9995f-5557-4dc4-ad48-4548360c2095/14c9995f-5557-4dc4-ad48-4548360c2095.xml>
in advance. For important and sensitive changes, like the wildcards,
they do not.