Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-25 Thread John Levine
>> who is asleep at the wheel or worse. For instance, there appears to be a >> '*.cm' wildcard in place, and several "flag of convenience" TLDs with a high > >cameroon outsourced their dns infrastructure management to someone In this case, the someone is in Vancouver B.C., and Canada is most de

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-25 Thread Douglas Otis
On May 24, 2007, at 10:45 PM, John Levine wrote: I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft technical solutions to policy failures. Since the registrar business has degenerated into a race to the bottom, I don't see anything better than setting a floor that is the minim

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-24 Thread John Levine
>I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft >technical solutions to policy failures. Since the registrar business has degenerated into a race to the bottom, I don't see anything better than setting a floor that is the minimal allowable bottom. Since ICANN has neither the inclina

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-24 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone been following the Registerfly fiasco? Since 2000, the ICANN >registrar agreement has required registrars to escrow their registrant >data according to ICANN's specs. It's been seven years, ICANN