2 on Complaint re: "IAB Commentary: DNS Wildcards"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

From: Gene Gaines <gene.gaines () gainesgroup com>

Harald,

I greatly appreciate the IAB making the statement "19 September 2003,
IAB Commentary: Architectural Concerns on the use of DNS Wildcards".

Thoughtful, accurate (the authors' knowledge is far greater than
mine on this subject) and polite.

Too polite to my mind.

In particular, I suggest that a key sentence in the IAB document is
in error, and such substantial error that the document should be
corrected. The sentence:

  "We have recently had the opportunity to observe the results of
  an experiment on use of wildcards in large top-level domains,
  with some rather undesirable and unintended consequences."

The Verisign incident is not an experiment.  It is an attempt at a
coup d'etat.

You take care to make only technical statements in the IAB Commentary.
However, by using "experiment", you set down for history, and for use
in court proceedings, a substantial error of fact.

Stating that Sitefinder is an experiment is rather like saying
World War II was an experiment.

I respectfully laud your good work.  But correct this.  Please.

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines () gainesgroup com
Sterling, Virginia USA

From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey () jefsey com>

Dear Dave,

I first read the truth in the subject: IAB is disastrous for the users.

I suggest to ask the IPers if this document does not only document that 
after 20 years IAB has been unable to address the listed problems. This is 
a true demonstation of the IAB Denial of Service to the Internet community 
and of the urgent need of an alternative technology consortium.

It will have to build a user archtecture based upon a 50% spammed smtp, a 
97.5% illegitimate root calls DNS , an http protocol partly supporting 
routing and addressing (virtual hosts) and an IPv6 confusing addressing and 
routing.

This may still be possible - but today a working EU report shows the trnd: 
Internet will probably soon be no more the priviedeged data pipe in here.

Jefsey Morfin
UTEL
http://utel.net

You can quote.

At 00:59 21/09/03, Dave Farber wrote:

http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html
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