From: Aron Roberts (aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 12:21:11 PDT
At 11:27 -0700 2003-09-17, Michael Sinatra wrote:
>[VeriSign was] specifically advised by the IAB that this [a set of
>practices which included "returning a positive response for for an
>unknown host/domain," in Greg Small's words] was a violation of DNS
>protocols back in January. They apparently don't care.
For those interested in looking at these issues in more depth, the
Internet Architecture Board (IAB)'s objections to VeriSign's new
practices are outlined in a January 25, 2003 letter to ICANN's Stuart
Lynn at:
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/iab-message-to-lynn-25jan03.htm
And here is VeriSign's response two weeks later:
http://www.verisign.com/nds/naming/idn/response.html
Interestingly, in addition to a possible desire to act as a
"typo-squatter," as Mike Hunter characterizes it, VeriSign appears to
have instituted these practices as an early means of supporting
internationalized domain names.
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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