On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:30:10 CDT, Travis Good <tgood@mindsecurity.net> said: > > Good to see they want to give the community notice, like they did with > their original change. Depends what community we're talking about. Seen on the NANOG list: Subject: Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones From: Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:47:56 +0100 To: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>, Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Matt Levine wrote: > So now you care about giving notice the community? That didn't seem > high on your priority list when you implemented it. The "community" I suspect that they are sensitive about is not NANOG etc. but the advertisers and the shareholders. Remember, Verisign is the effective monopigly (sic) issuer of certificates and the monopoly controller of the largest TLD. Their long term financial and political power is dependent on these - legitimate or corrupt applications aside. Having any external body (even a semi-legitimate one like ICANN) interfere will result in some real fallout for the power mongers... Peter
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