On 10/29/2021 5:02 PM, John R Levine wrote:
Oh, please. That was the sitefinder fiasco which led to lawsuits
and convulsions at ICANN, and considerable contract revision.
Nothing like that will happen again for reasons I can explain
privately for anyone who cares.
Except that repetition of the same action is not what was being
suggested. Rather, a matter of corporate culture was.
That was one event eighteen years ago. Since they haven't done
anything else like that since then, perhaps they learned a lesson.
When Jon Postel had half the root servers change where they took the
master data from, it was not as a demonstration of his power,
independent of the US government, as is often claimed.
The same folk in question here ran that master DNS root and were
threatening to go rogue and Jon wanted to make sure it would be possible
to marginalize the damage if they did.
cf, my above reference to corporate culture.
A variant of trust-but-verify is trust-but-prevent.
Every gTLD operator has a web of contracts with ICANN, and Verisign
also with the US government, which severely constrain what they can do
with their TLDs.
Yes, yes. All of them are well-behaved, following all the rules, and
the rules perfectly protect against misbehaviors, which they'd never
think of finding a way around.
d/
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