This would definitely be interesting, hearing Paul's take on Verisign's web assimilition^W"innovation".
----- Forwarded message from "Larry M. Augustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > From: "Larry M. Augustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [linux-elitists] Paul Vixie on Verisign at Stanford October 1=20 > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:10:35 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >=20 > Should be worth seeing: >=20 > COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM =20 > 4:15PM, Wednesday, October 1, 2003 =20 > NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03 =20 > http://ee380.stanford.edu =20 > =20 > Topic: dns typosquatting: methods, effects, and counteraction > what verisign's sitefinder means for the internet domain system >=20 > Speaker: paul vixie > internet software consortium >=20 > About the talk: >=20 > On September 15 2003, VeriSign added a DNS wildcard to the COM and NET > zones. On September 17, ISC released a patch to BIND that allows our users > to filter out the effects of these wildcards. In this extemporaneous talk, > Paul Vixie of ISC will explain what happened, who's upset about it, and w= hy. >=20 > About the speaker: >=20 > Paul Vixie was the last maintainer of BIND4, the main author of BIND8, and > an architect of BIND9. After cofounding MAPS (an anti-spam company) and > having some some excellent adventures in DotBombLand, he returned to ISC = in > May 2002 as its full time president. Paul holds the record for "most CERT > advisories due to a single author", and no longer writes code that other > people will see. >=20 > Contact information: >=20 > paul vixie > 950 charter street > redwood city > ca 94063 > +1.650.423.1301 > +1.650.423.1355 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >=20 > -- > Larry M. Augustin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: +1.650.966.1759 Fax: +1.650.966.1753 > _______________________________________________ > linux-elitists > http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists -- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain! -- Mr. Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
