All of which I believe tends to support my view that Verisign, as the "custodian" of what is widely perceived as "the Internet", at least the publicly owned part... by violating the trust of many of the operators of the private networks that actually make up the Internet, has contributed vastly to the instability of that which they were specifically mandated with protecting.
John Vogel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Selene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:39 PM Subject: Re: Block Verisign's domain > It is an interesting point to make, that the Internet operates solely through > voluntary cooperation and agreements of private parties. The Internet > is by definition simply an "Interconnection of networks" -- each of which > are the propriety of those respective network operators. > > There is no obligation for any network of the Internet to route traffic to > any other parts of the Internet. In the history of the Internet, there have > been many instances were such "disconnects". > > For example Sprint (who at the time operated a huge percentage of the > backbone filtered many routing announcements, that made many of these > networks unaccessible from Sprint and any sprint transit customers. > > 0/8 - 126/8, deny subnets of historical A's > 127/8 - 191/8, deny anything smaller than /16 > 192/8 - 205/8, deny anything smaller than /24 > 206/8 - 223/8, dney anything smaller than /19 > 192/8 [RIPE], deny anything smaller than /19 > > There is no obligation for any network to use the de facto root DNS servers. > Witness the "alternative root servers" starting with AlterNIC (defunct since > they hacked the global DNS system?) and the latest VC-funded New.NET. > > There is no obligation for a network not to descriminate against particular > domain names and websites. Witness the popularity if network filtering to > block objectionable material, especially in many foreign countries. > > As a network operator, you can pretty much do whatever you want, your > responsibility is only to your users. > > Adam >
