Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:53:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: a clever sheep <aard@perilith.com> Subject: Re: this verisign wildcard silliness Message-ID: <20030918195335.GA36904@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3F6A024C.5030307@potentialtech.com> References: <20030918183032.GB1058@perilith.com> <20030918183224.GM389@submonkey.net> <20030918184228.GA1594@perilith.com> <3F6A024C.5030307@potentialtech.com>
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--/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Is there some organization that is over Verisign that I could file > a complaint with? That would be ICANN (http://www.icann.org/) which is the body that took over from IANA that was and which has contracted Verisign to run the .com and .net domains and (some or all of?) the gTLD DNS servers. I've seen claims on slashdot and on the NANOG lists that Verisign's latest actions have put them in breach of their contract terms, and calls for ICANN to dump them and choose someone less avaricious instead. However, ICANN has just received an extension of their mandate from the US Department of Commerce for another 3 years and good luck (you'll need it) in getting any sort of action out of them. Personally, I think that ICANN should be subsumed by the ITU, which is a United Nations organisation and that seems to be much more effective at what it does and a lot less beholden to factional interests. There's some ... interesting ... traffic on the ICANN GNSO General Assembly mailing list at http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/ (GNSO =3D Generic Names Supporting Organisation, which is the sub-committee that deals with issues to do with the DNS generic Top Level Domains. It's always a bad sign when an organisational chart fills up with so many impenetrable acronyms...) Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ag0/dtESqEQa7a0RAlCLAJ4okC1ndC7ksMhjRuPgmyZuM5x+SACfV5xJ 4wX34nU7rzxI2Agc7QC8hHA= =qoxy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft--
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