RE: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Is this list alive?

[Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>]

And yet, in spite of overwhelming criticism, negative public opinion from
the operational community, and, ICANN saying "don't do it", Verisign has
announced plans to revive this brokenness because they "Just don't think
the user community has been represented in the discussions."  Their own
analysis (they talked to a whole 35 companies, according to Verisign)
revealed that the problems were "minor or an inconvenience".

The only reason they are minor or inconvenient is because BIND allows us
to disable your wildcard.  That doesn't make it a good idea.  The only
correct behavior for email to non-existant domains is to return NXDOMAIN
in response to the DNS query.  If Verisign can return NXDOMAIN for 
everything
except a web-browser query, then, it's just an abusive exploitation of
your monopoly position to turn the internet into a revenue stream.
If they can't, then, it's just broken and should not be allowed.

I sincerely hope ICANN takes appropriate notice of this and files for an
injunction to prevent Verisign from doing this.  In fact, I think each
and every person/organization on the internet that has the resources to
do so should individually file for an injunction in their local court.
Let's have Verisign play legal whack-a-mole over this.

Owen


--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:43 AM -0400 "Hollenbeck, Scott" 
<shollenbeck@verisign.com> wrote:

> > I've seen nothing in the archives past the first view days, and
> > nothing posted since 10/08.  I tried resubscrbing, but it told me I
> > already was subscribed.
>
> The list is alive; I received your message.  There just hasn't been any
> discussion.
>
> -Scott-
>
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