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Re: Verisign Responds
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul () somewhere com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:36:16 -0400
At 11:47 AM -0700 9/23/03, bmanning () karoshi com wrote:
lets try this again... why should a valid DNS protocol element be made illegal in some parts of the tree and not others? if its bad one place, why is it ok other places?
There's a simple answer and a not so simple. The simple answer is because in one part of the tree it was expected by all players up front, and in the other it wasn't. However in general I tend to agree. The things that Verisign broke (and which have cost my company several thousand dollars in lost time and unplanned programming tasks, never mind the increase in spam) are also broken by other TLDs that use wildcards. The issues weren't clear because the impact was small. Now that they are clear, those decisions should also be revisited.
-- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
Current thread:
- Re: Verisign Responds, (continued)
- Re: Verisign Responds Dan Hollis (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds bmanning (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Crist Clark (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Dan Hollis (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds bmanning (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Randy Bush (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Vadim Antonov (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Måns Nilsson (Sep 24)
- Re: Verisign Responds Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Andy Walden (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Kee Hinckley (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Dave Crocker (Sep 25)
- Re: Verisign Responds Randy Bush (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Eliot Lear (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Dave Crocker (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Jim Segrave (Sep 24)
- Re: Verisign Responds Eliot Lear (Sep 24)
- Re: Verisign Responds Jack Bates (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Paul Vixie (Sep 23)
- Re: Verisign Responds Jack Bates (Sep 24)
- Re: Verisign Responds Paul Vixie (Sep 24)