Re: TLD Managers and Wildcard Ethics

2003-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
> >It can be quite reasonable to make wildcard assertions about RRs that > >are all within the same administrative domain, but arguably this > >condition is not met for the COM or NET zones. > > Agreed - but again, unless it breaks the protocol or has an adverse impact > on robustness, (and not j

Re: TLD Managers and Wildcard Ethics

2003-09-16 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Keith  - At 12:56 9/16/2003, Keith Moore wrote: > An interesting point, but probably one better made to ICANN.  Try > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Since its not a standards or protocol issue its > probably not an IETF issue. I disagree that this is not a protocol issue, as it certainly affects operati

Re: TLD Managers and Wildcard Ethics

2003-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
> An interesting point, but probably one better made to ICANN. Try > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since its not a standards or protocol issue its > probably not an IETF issue. I disagree that this is not a protocol issue, as it certainly affects operation of protocols. There are probably issues for the D

Re: TLD Managers and Wildcard Ethics

2003-09-16 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi David - An interesting point, but probably one better made to ICANN. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since its not a standards or protocol issue its probably not an IETF issue. Thanks - Mike At 11:59 9/16/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Verisign's recent inclusion of wildcard RR's for the .net an

TLD Managers and Wildcard Ethics

2003-09-16 Thread dbotham
Verisign's recent inclusion of wildcard RR's for the .net and .com TLD's does not violate any standards in the DNS that I can find, although it has raised some interesting questions with regard to the ethical behavior or TLD managers. I think that managers of the TLD's should not be allow to use