Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

[Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>]

It is amazing that one psrson Paul Vixie could be so
intimidating that he must be intimidated and maligned
as a conspirator in order to eliminate him as a
potential threat because of his knowledge.....

I find that pretty ironic that a billion dollar
corporation is that weak.

-Henry

--- Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard
> wrote:
>
> > > verisign's official position throughout the
> sitefinder launch was 
> > > that "users
> > > are free to disable it if they want to."  they
> did NOT want this 
> > > characterized
> > > as them shoving their sitefinder service down
> anybody's unwilling 
> > > throat.  so
> > > i don't expect any action to occur against folks
> who installed a BIND 
> > > patch.
> >
> > Um, unless I really missed something during this
> whole episode, that
> > was the only way TO disable it.
>
> Have the roots recurse and put a wildcard in for
> anything that does not 
> resolve.
>
> Makes Paul a ... well, not a competitor, 'cause that
> would imply they 
> were in competition.  If the roots put in the wild
> card, the GTLDs 
> cannot compete.
>
> -- 
> TTFN,
> patrick