-----Original Message----- From: David Schwartz [mailto:davids@webmaster.com] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:38 PM To: ekgermann@cctec.com; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Kill Verisign Routes :: A Dynamic BGP solution Sensitivity: Confidential
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I think the whole idea of getting into an escalating technical war with Verisign is extremely bad. Your suggestion only makes sense if you expect Verisign to make changes to evade technical solutions. Each such change by Verisign will cause more breakage. Verisign will either provide a way to definitively, quickly, and easily tell that a domain is not registered or Verisign will badly break COM and NET.
DS
Who said they're logical in their decision making process. While they experiment with .com/.net, countermeasures are called for. And they have badly broken .com/.net. This is just an evolution of the blackhole solution, doing it dynamically. Keeps us from having to find out they changed it/moved it/etc. And, if *.com goes away, so does the route :).