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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Verisign vs. ICANN
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:58:00AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > > ... i'm not a defendant, just a named co-conspirator. > > > > Hah? Are they also naming individually all the dns operators that installed > > bind patch and specifically enabled it so that wildcards would not work? > > the lawsuit doesn't mention the bind patch. they seem to be upset about my > work on the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee. what their > "First Amended Complaint" says about me is that: > > Paul Vixie is a Site Finder co-conspirator [...]. > > Paul Vixie is an existing provider of competitive services for > registry operations, including providing TLD domain name hosting > services for ccTLDs and gTLDs, and a competitor of VeriSign for > new registry operations. [...] > > (y'know, i'd pay Real Money for Adobe Acrobat Professional for SuSE 9.1/amd64, > by which i could scan-convert PDF files instead of typing in stuff by hand -- > my win32 laptop has more than 70 days of downtime and i'm going for 3 digits.) > > verisign's official position throughout the sitefinder launch was that "users > are free to disable it if they want to." they did NOT want this characterized > as them shoving their sitefinder service down anybody's unwilling throat. so > i don't expect any action to occur against folks who installed a BIND patch. Um, unless I really missed something during this whole episode, that was the only way TO disable it. --- Wayne Bouchard [email protected] Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
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