Re: ICANN asks VeriSign to pull redirect service

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

I agree

In addition I'm not convinced that operated of each GTLD cannot be carried out 
by more than one organisation. The only requirement is to ensure the uniqueness 
of the data, there are multiple ways of achieving this without havnig to elect 
some one as the master..

Steve


On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, John Brown wrote:

> and now that Verisign is also not allowing zone file access,
> another breach of their contract with ICANN, I think ICANN
> should send them a Notice of Breach and Intent to Revoke Registry Status
>
> Issue the operation of .NET to Non-Profit A
> Issue the operation of .COM to Non-Profit B
>
> Of which one should be ISC.
>
> but thats just my uneducated thoughts.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:12:14PM -0400, Haesu wrote:
> > It's been about 2 days since ICANN requested Verisign to stop breaking.
> >
> > http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm
> >
> >     Recognizing the concerns about the wildcard service, ICANN has called 
> >         upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various 
> >         reviews now underway are completed.
> >
> > -hc
> >
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> > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:37PM -0400, Eric Germann wrote:
> > > http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1024_3-5079768.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert
> > > &form=feed&subj=cnetnews
> > >
> > > "The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to
> > > voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own site
> > > when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an
> > > error message. "
> > >
> > >
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