On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, neal rauhauser wrote:
Oh come on people, this guy *implements* stuff. Here he is on the list describing how he has implemented something to alleviate the problems caused by PHBs at Verisign.
He is a representative of Verisign and asked for feedback. He has gotten some. I honestly think that the person who made the decision to implement the A records thought the internet was only "web" and thus everything would be just great and Verisign would take in all sorts of advertising money and nothing else would happen.
ISC bind mods, ICANN displeasure, and other sources of pressure will either remove this issue or make it irrelevant.
Doubtful, the dollar number I heard was $100 million/year. Verisign won't let a bind mod get in their way with that much money at stake. They will do everything in their power to keep this in place.
Rather than bashing someone who is doing something positive we should see if we can paypal him $$$ for a box of tacks so he can mine the chairs of the tack head marketing weasels who decided this would be a good idea ...
I wrote a response to Matt (it went to the list). I used the directives "Verisign" and "you" a bit interchanably. They both were to mean the same thing, Verisign the company, not Matt Larson the person. I think the other responses I've seen so far were much the same. I'm hoping Matt doesn't take any of this personally. bye, ken emery
Matthew Kaufman wrote:
One piece of feedback we received multiple times after the addition of the wildcard A record to the .com/.net zones concerned snubby, our SMTP mail rejection server.
Did you miss the other pieces of feedback about how wildcard records in .com and .net are simply a bad idea for numerous reasons?
We would like to state for the record that the only purpose of this server is to reject mail immediately to avoid its remaining in MTA queues throughout the Internet. We are specifically not retaining, nor do we have any intention to retain, any email addresses from these SMTP transactions.
Right. We can't trust you to do the right thing with regard to the wildcards themselves, so now we have to trust you when you tell us what your SMTP server does. Why should we trust you, again?
I would welcome feedback on these options sent to me privately or the list; I will summarize the former.
I'll take "the list", even though I'm sure it'll get beaten to death by the time I check my mailbox again.
Matthew Kaufman matthew@eeph.com
Ps. Are you planning on operating servers which reject, with proper status codes, every other common service that might be found at an Internet address?
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