Re: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Pseudo code please

[Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>]

Sure... The nature is that my customer complaints from wildcards in other
domains is 0.  The number from the .com/.net wildcards exceeded 50 per day
for most of the duration.  If I get more than one customer complaint per
month from a CHANGE in the behavior of a TLD, then I'm going to be upset
with the operator of said TLD. As such, I am more than VERY upset with
Verisign.

However, that's not a real valid way to approach this, it's just more
annecdotal evidence of the need.

The real issue and reason that .com and .net are different from .museum
is that .museum is a "sponsored" domain with a clear owner and a clear
constituency that agreed that wildcards were an acceptable and good idea
for that TLD.  It serves a very different purpose than .com and .net.
I suspect that if you were to approach the community about wildcarding
.org or .edu, you'd get similar responses.  Frankly, the only reason I
can think of that noone has objected to this in .us is that we just
didn't notice the change because not very many people actually use
the .us domain in URLs that they type.

Changing the behavior of a TLD with a history of behaving a certain
way without clear consensus from the constituency using the domain and
it's registrants is a VERY BAD thing.

The longer the history and the larger the constituency and number of
registrants, the more VERY BAD it becomes.


Owen


--On Thursday, October 23, 2003 02:54:39 PM -0400 Andrew Newton <anewton@verisignlabs.com> wrote:

> Owen DeLong wrote:
> > No... My applications have hard coded behavior related to NXDOMAIN/RCODE
> > 3 and
> > the impact of those not being returned in certain zones where that is an
> > expected
> > problem does not cause consternation above the noise level.  The impact
> > of that
> > not working in .com/.net, on the other hand, is _MUCH_ above the noise
> > level.
>
> Can you define the nature and numeric value of the threshold(s)?
>
> -andy

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