On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:42:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm sure ICANN has already gotten an earful. I, for one, and going to > > leave ICANN alone so that they can concentrate on a course of action > > against Verisign. > > > They have already responded in a letter to VeriSign: > > "To restore the data integrity and predictability of the DNS > infrastructure, the IAB believes it would be best to return the .com and > .net TLD servers to the behavior specified by the DNS protocols." > > http://www.iab.org/Documents/icann-vgrs-response.html
That is not, as it happens, a response to the current DNS follies; it is a response from January 2003 to an announcement by VeriSign that they would be changing the way DNS works with respect to queries that contain non-ASCII octets. : Subject: Re: Request for Advice on VGRS IDN Announcement : To: "M. Stuart Lynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Cc: Leslie Daigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Chuck Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Brad Verd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Masanobu Katoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Steve Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Vint Cerf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Louis Touton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Andrew McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:19:37 +1100 : : [snip] : To restore the data integrity and predictability of the DNS : infrastructure, the IAB believes it would be best to return the .com : and .net TLD servers to the behavior specified by the DNS protocols. : VeriSign should, of course, be free to continue to distribute its : plug-in in other ways, and we hope with them that the deployment of : IDN-capable systems is as rapid as possible. Under the circumstances, it is plausible to infer that VeriSign's failure "to return the .com and .net TLD servers to the behavior specified by the DNS protocols" is manifest, if not blatant. I *hope* that ICANN, prompted by the IAB and the IETF in general, will remove VeriSign's authority to operate the .com and .net TLDs for this transgression, which totally eclipses the deviation addressed in the IAB's letter. -- Mike Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired old sysadmin since 1964 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
