Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-06 Thread Owen DeLong
Quite the opposite. It is a very carefully chosen set of words indicating that: 1. DNS didn't stop functioning. 2. The internet did not fail to route packets because of this. It carefully side-steps the other issues raised without looking like it is ignoring them. Verisi

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-06 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 06.10 10:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > "There is no data to indicate the core operation of the domain name > > system or the stability of the Internet has been adversely affected," > > VeriSign's Galvin said. > > This means that there are no papers published or > conference present

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
> "There is no data to indicate the core operation of the domain name > system or the stability of the Internet has been adversely affected," > VeriSign's Galvin said. This means that there are no papers published or conference presentations which detail the problems caused by sitefinder. A

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:53:04PM -0700, JC Dill wrote: > At 07:17 AM 10/4/2003, St. Clair, James wrote: > > I would add that what you perceive as a "diverse group" is still a > >realtively small sub-set of all the internet operations. > > Be that as it may, this group is *anything* but "close

RE: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-04 Thread JC Dill
At 07:17 AM 10/4/2003, St. Clair, James wrote: I would add that what you perceive as a "diverse group" is still a realtively small sub-set of all the internet operations. Be that as it may, this group is *anything* but "close knit". This is as unified as I've seen nanog participants on any matte

RE: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-04 Thread St. Clair, James
efit of all netizens. Shame on you.. :-) -Original Message- From: Owen DeLong To: Allen McRay; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/3/2003 5:47 PM Subject: RE: VeriSign Capitulates Verisign press releases have never been about the facts. Instead it's about trying to manipulate public perception

Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread David G. Andersen
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:34:05PM -0400, jeffrey.arnold quacked: > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > :: OK, so was ANYONE on NANOG happy with > :: a) Verisign's site finder > :: b) How they launched it > :: > > Disregarding their "implementation issues", the product is pretty good.

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread E.B. Dreger
JM> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:16:29 -0400 JM> From: Jared Mauch JM> I wonder if they will still present at Nanog? JM> JM> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/dns.html Perhaps they could give away limited-edition Snubby Mail Rejector t-shirts; bonus points if the shirts include expect script or is

Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Petri Helenius
jeffrey.arnold wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: :: OK, so was ANYONE on NANOG happy with :: a) Verisign's site finder :: b) How they launched it :: Disregarding their "implementation issues", the product is pretty good. I've actually used it to fix a few typos, etc... From an end

RE: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Owen DeLong
Verisign press releases have never been about the facts. Instead it's about trying to manipulate public perception to their side. Verisign has never expressed any actual concern or even care about how much damage their actions do to the internet. Any expectation that this would change in this ci

Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread jeffrey.arnold
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: :: OK, so was ANYONE on NANOG happy with :: a) Verisign's site finder :: b) How they launched it :: Disregarding their "implementation issues", the product is pretty good. I've actually used it to fix a few typos, etc... From an end user perspective, it'

NXDOMAIN signs (was VeriSign Capitulates)

2003-10-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
We could almost pretend it was because of the NXDOMAIN signs that got plastered on their HQ :) From http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/01/212231&mode=nocomment&tid=126&tid=15 wednesday: Verisign seems to have issu

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
It also imtimates that they do not believe that ICANN has any right under current legislation to monitor what actually goes into the zone file; only the way verisign behaves as a registry. The fact of the matter is that yes, there is a seperation between those two items but ICANN most deffinitely h

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
It may not be a hearing but they can still appeal. If, during this period, further technical and operational evaluations of the changes made by VeriSign on 15 September indicate that those measures can be reinstated, or reinstated with modifications, without adverse effects, I will ini

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Kevin Loch
"... in an attempt to assert a dubious right to regulate non-registry services." This explains everything. They don't believe the stability of com and net are in any way related to their registry duties. That quote alone should be sufficient to deny them custody of com and net.

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2003-10-03 15:56 -0400 Sean Donelan typed: SD> SD> SD> > "Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down SD> > the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will SD> > accede to their request while we explore all of our options." SD> SD> Uhm

Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Haesu
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:23:29PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > OK, so was ANYONE on NANOG happy with > a) Verisign's site finder Unfair competition, more confusions, broke a lot of stuff, etc, etc , beneficial to nobody > b) How they launched it Here... let's change the way DNS works..

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Haesu
> >VeriSign said the claims are overblown. > >"There is no data to indicate the core operation of the domain name >system or the stability of the Internet has been adversely affected," >VeriSign's Galvin said. LOL. VeriSign, woudl you like a copy of all the spams I got b/c you

RE: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Allen McRay
Outside of one other person on this list, I know no one else personally, so where do they come up with the "close-knit" stuff? I thought that most of the traffic I have monitored, re: this topic, has come from a very diverse and rather large group of people from all around the world who have been

Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
OK, so was ANYONE on NANOG happy with a) Verisign's site finder b) How they launched it Speak up on or off list. ---Mike At 04:14 PM 03/10/2003, George Bakos wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:59:49 -1000 (HST) Scott Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >VeriSign also angered the close-knit

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Jared Mauch
I wonder if they will still present at Nanog? http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/dns.html - Jared On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:44:26PM -0400, Tim Wilde wrote: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40241-2003Oct3.html > > And they act like they're the victims. Amazing. >

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread George Bakos
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:59:49 -1000 (HST) Scott Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >VeriSign also angered the close-knit group of engineers and scientists >who are familiar with the technology underpinning the Internet. They >say that Site Finder undermines the worldwide Domain Name Syste

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Scott Weeks
: "Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down : the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will : accede to their request while we explore all of our options." : : How about a public outcry? Did you miss that part? You don't deserve a : hearin

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Tim Wilde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > And they act like they're the victims. Amazing. > > "Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down > the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will > accede to their request while we e

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Tim Wilde wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40241-2003Oct3.html > > And they act like they're the victims. Amazing. Yep, I told you so :-) I said that before this was over, Verisign would claim they were the victims and a bunch of hooligans on the West

VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Tim Wilde
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40241-2003Oct3.html And they act like they're the victims. Amazing. "Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will accede to their request while we ex