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Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor () inoc net>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:27:26 -0400
On 9/20/03 6:09 PM, "Brian Bruns" <bruns () 2mbit com> wrote:
* Root servers or any critical DNS servers should not be in the control of companies. It should be handed over to Non-profit/not-for-profit orgs who will not be tempted to do the things Verisign has done. We feel completely comfortable with the root servers being in control of a group like the ISC or even govt. agencies like NASA.
Of course. Putting trust into big money corporations; look where that got us. (Hi Worldcom, Enron, Tyco, etc.) They have no respect for public interest, just the bottom line.. Hell and some don't even care about that. I don't believe in any one organization running the GTLD servers either. I believe giving it to two or three would be good. That way if one seems to do something seemingly stupid, we can effectively negate the perps and move on. There are lots of good organizations that can handle (and would be proud to handle) the GTLD servers. I don't know if I'd throw NASA in that group. (or any government agency for that matter) -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC rblayzor () inoc net PGP: http://www.inoc.net/~dev/ Key fingerprint = A445 7D1E 3D4F A4EF 6875 21BB 1BAA 10FE 5748 CFE9 Supercomputer: Turns CPU-bound problem into I/O-bound problem. - Ken Batcher
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- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated, (continued)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Robert Blayzor (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Paul Vixie (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Sean Donelan (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Paul Vixie (Sep 20)
- When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Sean Donelan (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Robert Blayzor (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Paul Vixie (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Henry Linneweh (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Jared Mauch (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Sean Donelan (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Brian Bruns (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Robert Blayzor (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Eric A. Hall (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Owen DeLong (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Daniel Roesen (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated E.B. Dreger (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Eric A. Hall (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Eric A. Hall (Sep 21)