Verisign bogosity {Scanned by HJMS}

[mikea]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:42:45PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:14 pm, Michele Neylon:: Blacknight Solutions
> wrote:
>
> > http://www.iab.org/Documents/icann-vgrs-response.html
>
> "To restore the data integrity and predictability of the DNS infrastructure,
> the Internet Architecture Board believes it would be best to return the .com
> and .net Top Level Domain servers to the behavior specified by the DNS
> protocols. VeriSign should, of course, be free to continue to distribute its
> plug-in in other ways, and we hope with them that the deployment of
> Interationalised Domain Name-capable systems is as rapid as possible."

Note the date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:19:37 +1100, which was a long time
back in Internet months.

: Subject: Re: Request for Advice on VGRS IDN Announcement
: To: "M. Stuart Lynn" <lynn at icann.org>
: Cc: Leslie Daigle <leslie at thinkingcat.com>,
:       Chuck Gomes <cgomes at verisign.com>,
:       Brad Verd <bverd at verisign.com>,
:       Masanobu Katoh <MKATOH at mkatoh.net>,
:      Steve Crocker <steve at stevecrocker.com>,
:      Vint Cerf <vinton.g.cerf at wcom.com>,
:      Louis Touton <touton at icann.org>,
:      Andrew McLaughlin <McLaughlin at icann.org>,
:      iab at ietf.org
: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:19:37 +1100
: [snip]
: To restore the data integrity and predictability of the DNS
: infrastructure, the IAB believes it would be best to return the .com
: and .net TLD servers to the behavior specified by the DNS protocols.
: VeriSign should, of course, be free to continue to distribute its
: plug-in in other ways, and we hope with them that the deployment of
: IDN-capable systems is as rapid as possible.

In no way is it news.

Note also that this thread addresses name service for requests which
contain non-ASCII octets, and is not directly related to the wildcard
changes inflicted on the Internet by VeriSign yesterday.

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Mike Andrews
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Tired old sysadmin since 1964