nanog is slow... :-P however, what do our swiss "majors" think about this?
Pascal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal Gloor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Verisign HOWTO > > http://www.hinterlands.org/ver/txt > > It's a 'How to get your IP block removed from the list that Verisign will > > reply with SiteFinder for'. > > And for each new IP block I'll have to call again? Who's gonna pay for my > call? if this number is free in the USA, it isnt from foreign countries... > > By this, Verisign just added "the world" by default to a content > distribution and "the world" has to unsubscribe?????? > > Perhaps some ISPs would be happy to use such a "*" domain if they would NOT > be forced to, but this is more like "we own the world", "we redirect the > world" and "if you're not happy, unsubscribe"... > > I still think this is unacceptable and the community should NOW do something > against such actions. > > If some majors would move forward and build up a > alternative-non-commercial-non-whateverisbad ROOT network, I think the world > could follow. ICANN and their roots are not a standart, they're just the > most used dns service on the top of IP and nothing can stop the community to > build up a widely used alternative ROOT service. however, a consensus of > majors is needed to start a widely used alt-roots. > > Now the question is, are the majors willing to do something or not... > > Just my 0.02 cents > > Pascal > ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
