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[William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com>]

Mark Kosters wrote:
> In the interest in gaining more community review and comment, a discussion
> list has been setup to discuss factually-based technical issues
> and solutions surrounding the operational impact of wildcards in
> top-level domains on Internet applications.
We already have such mailing lists.

 1) for technical "specification of message formats, message handling, 
    and data formats used for DNS client-server and server-server
    communication": http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/

    A lively moderated discussion of wildcards is already underway.

 2) for "[i]ssues surrounding the operation of DNS, recommendations 
    concerning the configuration of DNS servers, and other issues with 
    the use of the protocol": http://ops.ietf.org/lists/ops-area/


> VeriSign technical people will participate in discussions that are within
> the scope for this mailing list.
VeriSign technical people should have participated elsewhere, and this 
mess might have been less likely to occur.

I will not participate in a VeriSign sponsored list, as that might 
give fodder for another "press release" claiming network operators and 
designers had reviewed and approved the VeriSign changes.  I recommend 
that others only join neutral unaffiliated discussion lists. 
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William Allen Simpson
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