-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Paul Vixie wrote:
We recommend that any and all TLDs which use wildcards in a manner inconsistent with this guideline remove such wildcards at the earliest opportunity."
What else does the IETF need to do here?
issue an rfc. iab is not a representative body, and their opinions are not "refereed."
I wonder btw why Verisign didn't catch the "typo's" in their own domains if they think it is that important: 8<--------------------- ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc2 <<>> wwww.verisign.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 31401 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;wwww.verisign.com. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: verisign.com. 3600 IN SOA localhost.verisign.net. vshostmaster.verisign.com. 2003091501 10800 3600 604800 3600 ;; Query time: 165 msec ;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1) ;; WHEN: Tue Sep 23 16:51:56 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 106 - ----------------------->8 no mistyping wwww there :) BTW, that SOA record doesn't exist... 8<--------------------- ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc2 <<>> localhost.verisign.net. ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52583 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;localhost.verisign.net. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: verisign.net. 3570 IN SOA bay-w1-inf5.verisign.net. vshostmaster.verisign.com. 2003091501 10800 3600 604800 3600 ;; Query time: 32 msec ;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1) ;; WHEN: Tue Sep 23 16:55:48 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113 - ----------------------->8 Hmmm, suddenly another SOA on the same zone, this SOA does exist though. Odd DNS software they are running over there :) And apparently they can return NXDOMAINS after all. Greets, Jeroen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Unfix PGP for Outlook Alpha 13 Int. Comment: Jeroen Massar / jeroen@unfix.org / http://unfix.org/~jeroen/ iQA/AwUBP3BgwSmqKFIzPnwjEQK18wCfc95MR1wwV6vxDYtjtRLiuUuOLQkAoLzL +ksSp4pgzPqouqxTgDIn1VTd =DNLO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----