> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Kill Verisign Routes :: A Dynamic BGP solution
> Sensitivity: Confidential
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> I think the whole idea of getting into an escalating
> technical war with
> Verisign is extremely bad. Your suggestion only makes sense if you expect
> Verisign to make changes to evade technical solutions. Each such change by
> Verisign will cause more breakage. Verisign will either provide a way to
> definitively, quickly, and easily tell that a domain is not registered or
> Verisign will badly break COM and NET.
>
> DS
>
Who said they're logical in their decision making process. While they
experiment with .com/.net, countermeasures are called for. And they have
badly broken .com/.net.
This is just an evolution of the blackhole solution, doing it dynamically.
Keeps us from having to find out they changed it/moved it/etc. And, if
*.com goes away, so does the route :).
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