[IP] worth reading the iab response to an iCANN question re this mess
I would consider ICANNs response to this issue to be a very good indicator
of their ability to be a guardian of the DNS. If they don't take a strong
position, I will read that as yet another bad bad sign.
Dave
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:08:10 -0400
From: "Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Dave Farber wrote:
Doesn't Verisign have some kind of contract with a
government body specifying how they are to
discharge their trust in running the DNS?
Yes, Verisign has a contract with the United States Department of
Commerce. In adition, their actions are overseen, in principle, by the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Currently the DoC is
referring all queries to ICANN and Verisign, though they may issue a
statement in the next few days. ICANN has said that they *will* be issuing
a statement in a few days, and there has already been much internal
discussion. See:
http://www.iab.org/Documents/icann-vgrs-response.html
ahp
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