RE: What *are* they smoking?

There was an article, easily overlooked, in the NY Times this morning. Link below. (free, registration required.) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/technology/15MISS.html This action does call into question Verisign's ability to operate with public, nee international, infrastructure interests. In my opinion Verisign has demonstrated that they are no longer capable of maintaining its custody of of these TLDs.