Whackos.. ! Where..?! Can't see no pesky whackos, nope sir, all normal people here.
Paul, you have no problem support the corrupt ICANN monopoly. The colonists and minutemen were called their day's name for "whackos" as well. You have the right to speak without being shot for your opinion because those "whackos" fought and died to make it so. Just remember that the next time you fling that word around.
ICANN is a threat to freedom on the internet. There is no technical reason why there cannot be 1,000's of TLDs out there, except that it foils someone's monopoly stranglehold on one of the few chokepoints of the internet. The biggest threat is from WIPO which is trying to control the namespace and use it as a fulcrum to enforce their narrow intellectual property interests. WIPO has no place in the namespace and its UDRP is just a method for rich and powerful interests to steal domains from poor people, especially those in less-than-well-to-do countries. I will never stop fighting against that kind of thing, nor will others in this struggle.
There are many people who have been working against this unacceptable state of affairs for many years, myself included and I will not let you mis-characterize our struggle.
John Palmer
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 12:22 Subject: Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
nanog@riva.net (Randall Pigott) writes:
I am curious what the operational impact would be to network operators if, instead of Verisign using SiteFinder over all com and net, Verisign or their technology partner for SiteFinder began coercing a large number of independent ISPs and network operators to install their form of DNS redirection at the ISP-level, until all or most of the end-users out there were getting redirected.
It would be no worse than NEW.NET or any other form of DNS pollution/piracy (like the alternate root whackos), as long as it was clearly labelled. As an occasional operator of infrastructure, I wouldn't like the complaint load I'd see if the customers of such ISP's thought that *I* was inserting the garbage they were seeing. So I guess my hope is, it'll be "opt-in" with an explicitly held permission for every affected IP address (perhaps using some kind of service discount or enhancement as the carrot.) -- Paul Vixie