Re: Fw: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:30:10 CDT, Travis Good <tgood () mindsecurity net>  said:
> Good to see they want to give the community notice, like they did with
> their original change.

Depends what community we're talking about.  Seen on the NANOG list:

Subject: Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
From: Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy () knowtion net>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:47:56 +0100
To: Matt Levine <matt () deliver3 com>, Matt Larson <mlarson () verisign com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org

Matt Levine wrote:
> So now you care about giving notice the community?  That didn't seem
> high on your priority list when you implemented it.

The "community" I suspect that they are sensitive about is not NANOG etc.
but the advertisers and the shareholders.

Remember, Verisign is the effective monopigly (sic) issuer of certificates
and the monopoly controller of the largest TLD. Their long term financial
and political power is dependent on these - legitimate or corrupt
applications aside. Having any external body (even a semi-legitimate one
like ICANN) interfere will result in some real fallout for the power
mongers...

Peter

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