Re: [ga] BIND Patches Make Bad Situation Worse - ICANN strikes out addressing site Finder..
What would be great is if the inclusive root could thwart this hijack
by V$, so that Admins and software vendors need not get involved.
Someone once (or several times) said make ICANN irrelevant -- that
could start now with making SiteFinder irrelevant.
Just a thought, FWIW . . .
Thursday, October 16, 2003, 9:04:51 PM, Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
JW> All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,
JW> Well I figured this would happen. So it seems the
JW> stability argument from ICANN was more likely a political
JW> struggle with Verisign rather than a stability issue.
JW> Thank god our BindPlus is still stable as well as
JW> verisigns own BindPlus...
JW> And so the saga continues....
JW> See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/15/1524247
JW> An anonymous reader writes "After [0] .COM and .NET started using a
JW> wildcard, the internet community busily started creating patches to
JW> various pieces of software to circumvent this. It was [1] said
JW> that this was a grave problem to the internet. Several
JW> [2]official BIND patches were [3] announced over the next
JW> few days. However, it turns out they weren't necessarily
JW> too well thought through. Usage of the patch
JW> unexpectedly [4] broke at least 7 Top Level Domains,
JW> ISC announced 3 weeks later, after users [5] started
JW> having problems. The [6].NAME registry has sent
JW> [7]a formal letter to ICANN's [8]Security and
JW> Stability Advisory Comittee to warn against using
JW> the BIND patch, which they will look into in their
JW> next meeting. The intention may have been good,
JW> but... Stability? Anyone?"
JW> Links:
JW> 0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210&tid=95
JW> 1. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-users&m=106373300829218&w=2
JW> 2. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html
JW> 3.
JW> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-announce&m=106378709918671&w=2
JW> 4.
JW> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-announce&m=106582817511646&w=2
JW> 5. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15431.html
JW> 6. http://www.nic.name/
JW> 7. http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gnr-to-secsac-13oct03.pdf
JW> 8. http://secsac.icann.org/
JW> Regards,
JW> --
JW> Jeffrey A. Williams
JW> Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
JW> "Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" -
JW> Pierre Abelard
JW> ===============================================================
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JW> Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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JW> Contact Number: 214-244-4827 or 214-244-3801
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