ICANN Panel Pans VeriSign Search Service
For anyone who cares: "A panel of experts convened by the nonprofit organization that manages the Internet's domain-name system today took aim at the company that controls the popular "dot-com" and "dot-net" domains, issuing a report concluding that a controversial search service designed to make money off Web-browser typos is a threat to the stability of the Internet and should remain offline indefinitely." Found on Yahoo! news. - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
For anyone who cares:
I'm a mammal who cares. I only just read the findings, it does go on for 85 pages. At the Registrars Constituency meeting held at the Rome ICANN meeting I spoke unkindly to the smiling-everything-is-fine dream team of Cerf and Twomey, that they took far too long to issue a cease-and-desist to VGRS for SiteFinder. That got an EAGAIN (you are wrong, we're fast enough) from Cerf, and an ENOCLUE from Twomey. For the original, look to: http://www.icann.org/committees/security/ssac-report-09jul04.pdf See also http://www.icann.org/legal/verisign-v-icann-motion-dismiss-06jul04.pdf One of VGRS's causes of action was that ICANN shouldn't have interfered with SiteFinder. Eric
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Eric Brunner-Williams
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Fergie (Paul Ferguson)