Richard - Do they (Verisign) have any legal reason to??? - is there anything between them and ANY of their clients that requires them to inform them before any changes to protocol facilities are made - I think not. Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Welty" <rwelty@averillpark.net> To: <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: Re[2]: data request on Sitefinder
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:45 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin"
<smb@research.att.com> wrote:
A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers -- how much lead time do you need to make such changes safely?
may i suggest another operational issue then?
how does verisign plan to identify and notify all affected parties when
changes
are proposed?
for example, in the current case, how do they plan to identify every party running postfix and inform them that they need to upgrade their MTA?
this seems non-trivial to me.
richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security