Re: News coverage, Verisign etc.

In these days of corporate malfeasance scandal coverage, you'd think that Verisign's tactics would have whetted the appetite of some bright investigative reporter for one of the major publications.

For all that I'm critical of wildcards in TLDs -- I spoke at the meeting yesterday, and my slides are on my Web page -- I don't think there are any issues of malfeasance. No one has been looting Verisign's coffers, they're not cooking the books, etc. I see three issues: is this technically wise, did Verisign have the right to do this under their current contract with ICANN, and should they have such a right. I don't see anything resembling dishonesty. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb