Worth noting is the follow-up report: http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html and the response from Russell Lewis: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm Mr. Lewis' response is interesting only if you believe VeriSign has the community's interest in mind by implementing this service. If there was any indication that the change had a detrimental effect to the Internet, an Internet-friendly corporation would have suspended service. This quote is also interesting: "This was done after many months of testing and analysis and in compliance with all applicable technical standards" For such a monumental change, one would think VeriSign would have made a concerted effort to receive community feedback prior to implementation. Again, had they the community's interest in mind. On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:12:14 -0400 Haesu <haesu@towardex.com> wrote:
It's been about 2 days since ICANN requested Verisign to stop breaking.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm
Recognizing the concerns about the wildcard service, ICANN has called upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various reviews now underway are completed.
-hc
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:37PM -0400, Eric Germann wrote:
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1024_3-5079768.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert
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"The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own site when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an error message. "
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