Re: Verisign to Sell Network Solutions

[Jeremiah Cornelius <jeremiah () nur net>]

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On Thursday 16 October 2003 12:52, madsaxon wrote:
> At 12:10 PM 10/16/03 -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote:
> > \Read some "True Evil (tm)" here:
> > http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031007b.html?sl=070804
> >
> > They have a schlub testifying how great it is that there is something to
> > prevent "project-stopping 404-errors".
>
> Yep, that statement pegged my BS meter all the way.  Why not
> just come out and tell the truth?  "We control these TLDs and
> we'll do anything with them that we want.  You don't like it?

Also, I really think that if 404-errors are "project-stoppng" it would be 
better to improve your project methodology, rather than universally break the 
IETF compliance of the domain naming mechanism.

VS claims that network admins and managers finding fault with SiteFinder 
"don't care about consumers" !  
Yet the consumers of /their/ services are the same admins and managers.  

They baldly claim with a straight face that the engineering design of the 
Internet should be broken to accommodate the lowest common denominator of 
incompetence.

What an altruistic lot!  Just improving things for the average user!

> Make your own name resolution network."
>
> I guess we could go back to swapping host files.  At least
> that might be a legit use for P2P.

It really ought to be done.  Something less ambitious than Freenet - no 
default encryption, no need for plausable denyability.  Just an alternative, 
non-hierarchal P2P namespace independent of DNS.  Leave that mechanism to be 
ravaged by "Markitecture".
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