From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 14:47:25 EDT
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> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dave Stewart wrote:
> > > > > > Courts are likely to support the position that Verisign has control of .net
> > > > > > and .com and can do pretty much anything they want with it.
> > > > > ISC has made root-delegation-only the default behaviour in the new bind,
> > > > > how about drafting up an RFC making it an absolute default requirement for
> > > > > all DNS?
> > > > That would be making a fundamental change to the DNS
> > > > to make wildcards illegal anywhere. Is that what you
> > > > want?
> > > no it wouldnt. it would ust make wildcards illegal in top level domains,
> > > not subdomains.
> > really? and how would that work? (read be enforced...)
>
> Well yes thats part of the problem. It looks like verisign doesnt care
> what anyone (ICANN, IAB, operators) thinks. But if we can mandate via RFC
> it for dns software (servers, resolvers) etc. Then we go a ways to
> removing verisign from the equation. Verisign can do what they like,
> everyone will just ignore their hijacking.
>
lets try this again... why should a valid DNS protocol element
be made illegal in some parts of the tree and not others?
if its bad one place, why is it ok other places?
--bill
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