[IP] 2 on Complaint re: "IAB Commentary: DNS Wildcards"
From: Gene Gaines <gene.gaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Harald,
I greatly appreciate the IAB making the statement "19 September 2003,
IAB Commentary: Architectural Concerns on the use of DNS Wildcards".
Thoughtful, accurate (the authors' knowledge is far greater than
mine on this subject) and polite.
Too polite to my mind.
In particular, I suggest that a key sentence in the IAB document is
in error, and such substantial error that the document should be
corrected. The sentence:
"We have recently had the opportunity to observe the results of
an experiment on use of wildcards in large top-level domains,
with some rather undesirable and unintended consequences."
The Verisign incident is not an experiment. It is an attempt at a
coup d'etat.
You take care to make only technical statements in the IAB Commentary.
However, by using "experiment", you set down for history, and for use
in court proceedings, a substantial error of fact.
Stating that Sitefinder is an experiment is rather like saying
World War II was an experiment.
I respectfully laud your good work. But correct this. Please.
Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sterling, Virginia USA
From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx>
Dear Dave,
I first read the truth in the subject: IAB is disastrous for the users.
I suggest to ask the IPers if this document does not only document that
after 20 years IAB has been unable to address the listed problems. This is
a true demonstation of the IAB Denial of Service to the Internet community
and of the urgent need of an alternative technology consortium.
It will have to build a user archtecture based upon a 50% spammed smtp, a
97.5% illegitimate root calls DNS , an http protocol partly supporting
routing and addressing (virtual hosts) and an IPv6 confusing addressing and
routing.
This may still be possible - but today a working EU report shows the trnd:
Internet will probably soon be no more the priviedeged data pipe in here.
Jefsey Morfin
UTEL
http://utel.net
You can quote.
At 00:59 21/09/03, Dave Farber wrote:
http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html
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