Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

Hi Alexei,
 I do not believe there is any technical spec prohibiting this, in fact that DNS 
can use a wildcard at any level is what enables the facility. I think this is a 
non-technical argument.. altho it was demonstrated that owing to the age and 
status of the com/net zones a number of systems are now in operation which make 
assumptions about the response in the event of the domain not existing...

Steve

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:

> (read it only today, so sorry if I repeat something).
>
> The technical roots of the problem are: proposed services VIOLATES internet
> specification (which is 100% clean - if name do not exist, resolver must
> receive negative response). So, technically, there is not any ground for
> SiteFinder - vice versa,
> now you can add client-level search SiteFinder (MS did it, and it took LOONG
> to turn off their dumb 'search' redirect) so allowing
> competition between ISP, browsers and so on.
>
> Anyway, please - those who knows history and can read this 'official'
> English (little bored) - I am sure, that we can find many inconsistencies in
> the filing; it may be reasonable to provide a set of independent _technical_
> reviews, showing that ICANN plays a role of technical authority, just do not
> allowing to violate a protocols. For the second case (waiting lists), it is
> not technical issue, but it is anti-competitional attempt from Verisign as
> well. I can ask my Russian folks to review it as well (dr. Platonov, Dimitry
> Burkov) but I am not sure, if it is of any use... Anyway, good review,
> explaining history and revealing real ICANN role, should be done.
>
> If VeriSign wish to deploy services - they must put thru new RFC first.
>
> PS. I am excited - Vixie as a co-conspirator... Vixie, you can be proud -:).
>
> Alexei Roudnev
>
>
>
>
> > PV> Date: 18 Jun 2004 05:58:00 +0000
> > PV> From: Paul Vixie
> >
> > PV>         Paul Vixie is an existing provider of competitive services for
> > PV>         registry operations, including providing TLD domain name
> hosting
> > PV>         services for ccTLDs and gTLDs, and a competitor of VeriSign
> for
> > PV>         new registry operations.  [...]
> >
> > I'm missing something.  By what stretch of whose imagination does
> > root nameserver operations compete with a registrar?
> >
> >
> > Eddy
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