Re: requesting hard data sources on ramifications of verisign wildcard

2003-10-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
k claffy wrote: >... > please send any hard data reflecting observed ramifications on > security and stability of Internet infrastructure to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > no hard data will be refused service Here's a glimpse of some data for a small ISP (bcc'd to secsac). This mail serv

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Levine
On Oct 16, 2003, at 9:39 PM, Dan Riley wrote: And write your congressmen to explain how Verisign is abusing a government granted monopoly to stop others (including M$ and AOL) from innovating at the edge, because that's where this is headed--Verisign is ultimately counting on having better lobb

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Robert Boyle
At 09:27 PM 10/16/2003, you wrote: I agree that an application level solution at the edge is the best. I like the idea of having a user configurable parameter in the client browser to allow the ``finder'' URL to be set. The browser ``manufacturer'' would of course put their own default and the ISP

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Riley
Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having been a part of many fraternity pranks along this line, I might > remind some of a glitch with this line of thinking. > > VeriSign employees read this list. (Verisign shows up with tomatoes & red > "I love VeriSign" shirts saying if you like the idea...w

Re: Operational content, snr and nanog mailing list...

2003-10-16 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Showing our displeasure to Verisign (and potentially getting media coverage which explains why nanog-l posters are mad at verisign) is indeed operational... Unless you enjoy monopolistic corporations breaking significant features of the Internet without prior notice? At 03:30 PM 10/16/2003 -0

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Moscovitch
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: > > Yes, I will heartily agree with this. Having this functionality be > triggered by a wildcard in the DNS records is the wrong approach. It's > the application that should be taking care of this > > if (NXDOMAIN) > redirect(preferences->sitefinde

instead of tomatoes

2003-10-16 Thread David Lesher
May I suggest. pumpkins A pumpkin per complainant would make a nice visual symbol, one the press could grasp. And afterwards, they could be donated -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & no one will talk to a host that's close[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unle

RE: Pitfalls of _accepting_ /24s

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
A proposal was made some years ago, which I thought was by Tony Li, but, IIRC, he says it wasn't original with him. It does require cooperation from competitors, but can reduce the number of announcements. Under some circumstances, it may cause blackholing, but so can /24 filtering. The idea

Re: VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Henry Linneweh
That is a positive note, hopefully the new group will give us a public statement of its intentions.   -HenryMark Vallar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just got this email from Network Solutions...Hm--mvalFrom: Network Solutions, Inc.[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:3

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
Paul Vixie wrote: While I agree that handling of NXDOMAIN needs to improve, such handling must be done by the application. Popular browsers have already started ... i think i agree with where this was going, but it would be a fine thing if we all stop calling this NXDOMAIN. the proper term is

RE: Pitfalls of _accepting_ /24s

2003-10-16 Thread Terry Baranski
jlewis wrote: > On the topic of announcing PA /24's, what procedures do > you take to make sure that a new customer who want's to > announce a few PA (P being one or more P's other than > yourself) IP space is legit and should be announcing > that IP space? I'm also interested in hearing cur

RE: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Vivien M.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Vixie > Sent: October 16, 2003 7:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service] > > > ken is right and i apologize for the confusion. most of the

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Vixie
i just got done reading http://news.com.com/2008-7347_3-5092590.html, so now at least i know why my phone was ringing so much earlier today. anyway, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ken emery) quotes me as saying... > > let me just emphasize that the default is OFF. BIND doesn't break > > sitefinder; nameser

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread ken emery
On 16 Oct 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: Good writeup Paul. > > To change this: what else can we do to prevent this? Does the last BIND > > version truly break sitefinder? > > in my last conversation with a verisign executive, i learned that there is a > widely held misconception that the last BIND

Backdoor Trojan behind BigPond, Internet spam woes

2003-10-16 Thread Sean Donelan
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,248600,20279775,00.htm Backdoor Trojan behind BigPond, Internet spam woes By Andrew Colley, ZDNet Australia 15 October 2003 U.S.-based Internet security researchers have confirmed that a worm is behind the sharp jump in spam activity batter

Pitfalls of _accepting_ /24s

2003-10-16 Thread jlewis
On the topic of announcing PA /24's, what procedures do you take to make sure that a new customer who want's to announce a few PA (P being one or more P's other than yourself) IP space is legit and should be announcing that IP space? I'm not sure what they do internally, but I know Sprint, C&W

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Vixie
lots of misconceptions here today. declan, you ought to pay closer attention. verisign didn't say at the meeting yesterday that they were planning to revive the redirect service, in fact they used the term "if or when" when describing their plans in that area. furthermore they did not commit to

RE: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Hilton
In reference to some earlier politically active days: Hey! Hey! Ver - i - sign ! How Many Domains Do You Think Are Thine? Hilton

Operational content, snr and nanog mailing list...

2003-10-16 Thread Joel Jaeggli
By my count there have been 23 odd messages in which the subject contains the word tomatoes, this is out of 96 messages I've recieved on this list since midnight pdt. Isn't there something more useful people on this list could be doing. joelja -- -

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
I think that the number of people showing that they oppose Verisign would still carry the day on the meaning of the tomatoes and red shirts. Verisign could try to delude themselves into believing it was ambiguous, but, I don't think the press or the attendees would buy it. Also, I don't think Veri

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread E.B. Dreger
KH> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:23:41 -0400 KH> From: Kee Hinckley KH> Verisign is trying to move this argument into a question of what best KH> serves the end-user. They are doing this because the public KH> understands that, and because they know they can't win the question KH> of what best ser

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:38:57 EDT, "Vachon, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > THIS MESSAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail message and any attachments are > proprietary and confidential information intended only for the use of the > recipient(s) named above. Well.. I severely doubt that any of t

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS
I have to agree with Scott. Be professional. Y'all can use tomato.net as examples if you want (though actually that one belongs to buydomains.com, which buys potentially resellable domain names.) A more important concern is that they keep mentioning that they've been talking to web users and lo

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
The two options are not mutually exclusive, and, since Verisign has chosen to turn this into a press-battle, I think it would be good not to ignore that battlefield. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 14:56 -0400 Chris Strandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe a "vote" at the end of the present

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Jason Slagle
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Kee Hinckley wrote: > Verisign is trying to move this argument into a question of what best > serves the end-user. They are doing this because the public > understands that, and because they know they can't win the question > of what best serves the infrastructure providers.

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
I have no religion about the particular choice of fruit/vegetable (yes, I know tomatoes are technically fruit). However, I think we should try to stick to Red and the symbolism of the tomato cannot be denied. It has long been used as a response to bad implementation and that is exactly what we

Re: requesting hard data sources on ramifications of verisign wildcard

2003-10-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
on 10/16/2003 2:26 PM k claffy wrote: > caida has the following request on behalf of icann's secsac committee > a common theme over the last week is an admitted lack of hard data > [rather than lists of theoretical breakages, and anecdotal evidence, > and predictions] from the operational com

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Geo.
>>Verisign is trying to move this argument into a question of what best serves the end-user.<< This doesn't matter, their point should be moot. Verisign is charged with managing the .com and .net domains for the public. They DO NOT OWN those domains so they are not allowed to use them for their o

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Gerald
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, JC Dill wrote: > Great idea! Can we count on Dan for tomato acquisition and for Owen for > post-protest dispersal to a foodbank? Having been a part of many fraternity pranks along this line, I might remind some of a glitch with this line of thinking. VeriSign employees rea

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread David Meyer
>> I would also suggest that we try to make contact with a second-harvest or >> other organization that may be able to use the tomatoes afterwards. Or just use your time and resources to do some good for those who are less fortunate in the first place. Using food of any ki

RE: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Lockwood
I will do my best to get the tomatos. How many do you think we will need? Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC Dill Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:12 To: NANOG Subject: Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29 At 12:00 PM 10/16/20

RE: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Vachon, Scott
> all > those who approve > of the wildcards would put their token-of-choice in another pile. > Might I suggest the "joker" out of a deck of playing cards ? ; ) Learn more about Paymentech's payment processing services at www.paymentech.com THIS MESSAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail message

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Daniel Senie
At 03:30 PM 10/16/2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: Bruce Campbell wrote: [much snipped] > Also, did the query that I'm debugging really go to the same host that I > just got the real IP address from? I believe I covered that in my initial response to Randy which you snipped. I said: "> Dan Senie has s

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 12:45 PM -0700 10/16/03, JC Dill wrote: At 11:56 AM 10/16/2003, Chris Strandt wrote: Maybe a "vote" at the end of the presentation would be better. After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see what the participants think of starting Site Finder again. Its not as p

Re: (on-topic) / RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Loftis
My bad I should've been more specific, that is indeed what I will personally be doing on any networks that I can, which should be basically everything. I'm also considering the other alternative suggested by some, which is to push traffic to a host of my own. I will have to do something about

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 16 Oct 2003, at 11:25, Bruce Campbell wrote: I know to look for 'version.bind', 'id.server', 'version.server' and a few others, but I hadn't considered asking for 'whoareyou.arbitary.domain'. Why would other people consider it? Incidentally, there is a similar mechanism available for the F r

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Vadim Antonov
> Ahem. Many of us are Star Trek experts, and it will take a LOT more > than this to get people to wear a red shirt. A red EFF t-shirt (as a sign of recent donation) would be a good choice :) --vadim

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
At 11:56 AM 10/16/2003, Chris Strandt wrote: Maybe a "vote" at the end of the presentation would be better. After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see what the participants think of starting Site Finder again. Its not as press worthy... but it lets Verisign have th

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Scott Weeks
: >Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will : >sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile : >no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really. : >I will not throw the tomato at Verisign no matter how much they deserv

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 4:07 PM +0100 10/16/03, Ray Bellis wrote: Quoting Rusty Lewis from http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031007b.html?sl=070804 "We will continue to take feedback from both Internet users and the technical community on how we can ensure that the service is available for the many Internet

requesting hard data sources on ramifications of verisign wildcard

2003-10-16 Thread k claffy
as already mentioned, fascinating public policy theatre is going on in DC on the verisign wildcard issue, see http://secsac.icann.org/ [all video and even transcripts of both meetings online. go icann.] you are encouraged to read through all of it before making public comments on this is

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
You have to give Verisign some props for having the balls to present at NANOG...and those props should be in the form of not chasing them from the room with angry threats and pitchforks. Mark and the rest of the folks from Verisign, formerly NSI, formerly Internic, etc, etc have long been CONTRI

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Owen DeLong wrote: > --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:57 -0600 Michael Loftis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a good one, when was the last tiema telco asked any of us, or > > anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment? or LERG? > > > This isn'

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
If you are attending NANOG 29, please attend this session and wear a red shirt. Ahem. Many of us are Star Trek experts, and it will take a LOT more than this to get people to wear a red shirt. Huh? I'm somewhat familiar with Star Trek, and, I realize the red shirts are usually the first to die Ri

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
Bruce Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: > > However as the dns was walked, if indeed a server had a problem, in a > > non-anycast implementation you could tell which server ip address had > > the problem. But you could not always tell which actual machine had a > > p

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:03:44PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Scott Bradner wrote: > > > Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and > > > distribution committee. > > lets not > > > > tomatoes != knowledge (nor are an indicator of same) > Nope, they're a

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
At 12:00 PM 10/16/2003, Owen DeLong wrote: Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really. I will not throw the tomato at Verisign no

(on-topic) / RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Bryan Bradsby
> I for one am going to dumping all traffic bound to SiteFinder. One (operational) suggestion. Kindly return an icmp [net|host|port] unreachable, not just a route to /dev/null. Just a thought about the (waste of) client retrys and timeouts. Thank you, -bryan bradsby == "The

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:57 -0600 Michael Loftis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a good one, when was the last tiema telco asked any of us, or anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment? or LERG? This isn't necessarily a great analogy for this situation. It is li

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Andy Dills
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Scott Bradner wrote: > > > > Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and > > distribution committee. > > lets not > > tomatoes != knowledge (nor are an indicator of same) Nope, they're an indicator of distaste and disrespect. I don't think anybody wants

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Strandt
Maybe a "vote" at the end of the presentation would be better. After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see what the participants think of starting Site Finder again. Its not as press worthy... but it lets Verisign have their say, and gives the community a voice righ

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
I would also suggest that we try to make contact with a second-harvest or other organization that may be able to use the tomatoes afterwards. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:36 -0700 "Wayne E. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a brief statement that kinda goes without saying but

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really. I will not throw the tomato at Verisign no matter how much they deserve it. Wayne is

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Loftis
I have a good one, when was the last tiema telco asked any of us, or anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment? or LERG? NEVER. We're not qualified to make decisions like that because we don't know what the effects could or would be. Likewise VeriSign obviously doesn't, no

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. To recap: At NANOG 29 in Chicago, on Monday October 20th at 9:15 am a session on "VeriSign's Wildcard Record: Effects and Responses" will be held, with Mark Kosters and Matt Larson from VeriSign and Suzan

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Scott Bradner
> Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and > distribution committee. lets not tomatoes != knowledge (nor are an indicator of same) Scot

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
Just a brief statement that kinda goes without saying but I'll say it anyway. Although I'm not going to be there personally, I do intend to watch the netcast. I would just ask (and I'm sure merit folks share this) that despite the actions that have been taken by verisign and the conflicts etc,

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:08:41PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > I've been thinking that there should be a new type of > record introduced to be application specific for HTTP, just as > MX only applies to smtp. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically what SRV records (rfc2782) are intended

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
Owen DeLong wrote: They claim to be representing the "USER" community and to know better than we what they end users want. They think we're just a bunch of geek engineers that are unwilling to embrace new ideas. Most of all, they think they can make money this way, and, they don't really care

Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. To recap: At NANOG 29 in Chicago, on Monday October 20th at 9:15 am a session on "VeriSign's Wildcard Record: Effects and Responses" will be held, with Mark Kosters and Matt Larson from VeriSign and Suzanne

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Jared Mauch
I've been thinking that there should be a new type of record introduced to be application specific for HTTP, just as MX only applies to smtp. Due to a wide variety of applications relying upon A records as their method, or method of last resort (eg: if no MX, go directly to the IN

OT: Dark Fiber in Portland/Beaverton Area

2003-10-16 Thread Brennan_Murphy
Email me if you are familiar with the fiber landscape (dark/lit) or lack thereof in the Portland/Beaverton areas. Thanks, BM

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:16:53 CDT, Andrew D Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to the fact that they've probably existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or

RE: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Lockwood
OK, so who is responsible for bringing the fruit? Does our registration fee cover that? :D Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC Dill Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:05 To: NANOG Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect se

Re: VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:41:52 +0100, Ray Bellis wrote: > >> Does anyone know if this includes ALL of Network >> Solutions or just the Registrar? Does Verisign >> plan to keep the Registry or does it go along >> with the Network Solutions sale? > >According to the press release they plan to keep t

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
I like it. I'm game. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:04 AM -0700 JC Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ouch. http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html VeriSign to revive redirect service by Declan McCullagh VeriSign will give a 30

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> >So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry > services > >operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be > owned by > >different companies? > > Yep. And it means that Verisign business is no longer > based so much on serving customers but more on l

Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 9:19 AM -0700 10/16/03, Owen DeLong wrote: The back end DNS is the registry service. What you are saying they are doing is selling the REGISTRAR business and keeping the REGISTRY. Or did I miss something? No, that's correct. I just can't keep them straight in my fingers (and neither can Veris

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread E.B. Dreger
CW> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:19:25 -0400 CW> From: Chris Woodfield CW> So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the CW> registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance CW> operations for .com/.net will be owned by different CW> companies? I wonder just how different they a

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
Correction... People would prefer that Verisign keept the REGISTRAR operations for .com/.net and sold the REGISTRY operations. REGISTRY is the monopoly part that the REGISTRARs feed into. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:58 PM +0100 Simon Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu Oct 16,

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
Yes, I will heartily agree with this. Having this functionality be triggered by a wildcard in the DNS records is the wrong approach. It's the application that should be taking care of this if (NXDOMAIN) redirect(preferences->sitefinder_host, url); If verisigin wants to partner with someone to

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:08 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Yep. And it means that Verisign business is no

Re: VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Ray Bellis
> Does anyone know if this includes ALL of Network > Solutions or just the Registrar? Does Verisign > plan to keep the Registry or does it go along > with the Network Solutions sale? According to the press release they plan to keep the registry. Ray

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread just me
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the > registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations > for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Yep. Uh, actually, no. They're spinning off the registRAR

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
They claim to be representing the "USER" community and to know better than we what they end users want. They think we're just a bunch of geek engineers that are unwilling to embrace new ideas. Most of all, they think they can make money this way, and, they don't really care about anything else.

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ouch. http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html VeriSign to revive redirect service by Declan McCullagh VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com a

RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
ICANN threatened legal action before, effectively. Are they doing anything this time? On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:56:47 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > >He's right, and we should actually take our business elsewhere. >Unfortunately, >we can't. They have a monopoly. No matter what registrar we use to

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> What effective action can we take as a collective group to > get the point across that we will not tollerate this type of behavior? Internet death penalty? (at last a topic you can configure your router for) Having been provided a mechanism to catch all those typos what ISP wouldn't want that

Re: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s

2003-10-16 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 11:57 PM, Forrest wrote: True enough, but are there any providers currently that filter /24's from the old Class C space that /24's were assigned directly from? As someone who is multihomed but uses others /24's, I am sensitive to this. I do not _thin

Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
The back end DNS is the registry service. What you are saying they are doing is selling the REGISTRAR business and keeping the REGISTRY. Or did I miss something? Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:46 AM -0400 Kee Hinckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 3:18 PM +0100 10/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
Does anyone know if this includes ALL of Network Solutions or just the Registrar? Does Verisign plan to keep the Registry or does it go along with the Network Solutions sale? Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:40 AM -0400 Mark Vallar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just got this email from Netw

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:16:53 CDT, Andrew D Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of > credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to the fact that they've probably > existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or .info. Most of my s

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
>So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services >operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by >different companies? Yep. And it means that Verisign business is no longer based so much on serving customers but more on leveraging v

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote: > So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services > operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by > different companies? > > Isn't that what we wanted all along? Yes, e

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Lockwood
Recognizing that I am not an 'expert', I have got to ask just one question. Can these people at Verisign really think that they know better than all of the real experts that have worked with/on the DNS over the years. It seems rather silly to assume that a few people have more knowledge than the

RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
He's right, and we should actually take our business elsewhere. Unfortunately, we can't. They have a monopoly. No matter what registrar we use to register our domains, that registrar is paying the part of Verislime that is inflicting this on us to run the REGISTRY for .com and .net. The only

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us > on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking We've been moving all our domains to OpenSRS for a year, but doing it as they come up for renewal.

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Adam C. Greenfield
It is a much better idea that these functions are performed by a seperate (IMHO). Of course they are doing it to resolve the conflict of interest issue, and the people saying (and filing suit) about the fact that SiteFinder is un-fair competition between them and the other registrars. I'm not rea

Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Kee Hinckley wrote: > This point just became moot. > Versign is selling the registry business. Network Solutions is being > spun off. They retain the back end DNS. They're selling the _registrar_ business off. They retain the _registry_ and the associated stuff to the bac

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > > > and what assurance do you have that the traceroute is to the same > > server to which the original query failed? > > > > difficulty debugging anycast dns was the major reason for sceptisim > > re anycast auth servers. > > However

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread William Astle
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: > Joe sent a note that identified a possible common thread in the version > of bind the recursive servers were using. Could you perhaps look at that > and see if there is any commonality? I'll see what I can do about that. Unfortunately, the folks complai

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Woodfield
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Isn't that what we wanted all along? -C On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:58:11AM -0400, Adam C. Greenfield wrote: > > Yea,

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Andrew D Kirch
I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to the fact that they've probably existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or .info. Although looking at that list I might note that I probably would include .us with .com and

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Todd Vierling
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Adam C. Greenfield wrote: : Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their : site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will : still be the people maintaining the com and net registries. Which sounds like an attempt to prevent co

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
so, luxury hotels, japanese fiber, and registery services? I guess booking is a booking. http://www.pivotalgroup.com/newsopen.html Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing CenterUniversity of Oregon llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu

Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Ray Bellis
Quoting Rusty Lewis from http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031007b.html?sl=070804 "We will continue to take feedback from both Internet users and the technical community on how we can ensure that the service is available for the many Internet users who clearly like it." Well that's ve

Re: BGP and OSPF

2003-10-16 Thread Jean-Yves Le Boudec
I have received many very helpful responses to that question. In summary, the majority common practice for the case I presented seems to be: 1. run BGP on all routers in the core, even those that do not have interfaces to the outside of the AS. Here, this means R0 should run BGP. 2. This caus

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Adam C. Greenfield
Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will still be the people maintaining the com and net registries. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:29, Mark Radabaugh wrote: > This is interesting: > > > Dear Val

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In this day and age, people don't guess URLs anymore by sticking .com at > the end of a word so there is no longer any advantage to using a .com > domain name over a .biz or .info or .us. FWIW, I still do as it is faster than google. I bet that tha

Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 3:18 PM +0100 10/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might

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