Forwarded with Vittorio Bertola's permission.
I received a similar response from Izumi Aizu.
Gene Gaines
gene(_dot_)gaines(_at_)gainesgroup(_dot_)com
Sterling, Virginia USA
This is a forwarded message
From: Vittorio Bertola <vb(_at_)bertola(_dot_)eu(_dot_)org>
To: Gene Gaines <gene(_dot_)gaines(_at_)gainesgroup(_dot_)com>
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 9:17:46 AM
Subject: Verisign attempt to "take" all unpaid addresses
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Hello,
we've been working on this since the first rumours started to come up, see
http://forum.icann.org/mail-archive/alac/msg00385.html and following thread.
We will release a statement shortly.
Thanks for your support :-)
Regards,
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:48:26 -0400, you wrote:
To:
ICANN Interim At-Large Advisory Committee:
Erick Iriarte Ahon, Peru, Computer Law Specialist,
faia(_at_)amauta(_dot_)rcp(_dot_)net(_dot_)pe
Izumi Aizu, Asia Network Research Researcher, izumi(_at_)anr(_dot_)org
Vittorio Bertola, Italy, Technical manager,
vb(_at_)bertola(_dot_)eu(_dot_)org
Pierre Dandjinou. BENIN, ICT Policy Advisor, SURF/UNDP
Dandjinou(_dot_)Pierre(_at_)undp(_dot_)org
Esther Dyson, USA, publisher/writer/IT investor/small business owner,
edyson(_at_)edventure(_dot_)com
Clement Dzidonu. GHANA, Dept Computer Science, Valley View Univ.,
dzidonu(_at_)ghana(_dot_)com
Xue Hong. Prof., Faculty of Law, U. Hong Kong, Prof., Foreign Affairs Coll.,
rainbow(_at_)cnnic(_dot_)net(_dot_)cn
I have a request of you, and I politely request individual answers
from each of you.
There are many many emails denouncing the new move by VeriSign
to hijack all unregistered addresses in the spaces they manage.
All unregistered domains in .com and .net now resolve to
64.94.110.11, a Verisign-operated web search engine on port 80
which reports advertiser-paid results.
If ICANN will not move immediately and aggressively here,
then it is a clear sign that organization is of no value,
and is in fact what ICANN is what Karl Auerbach has long
suspected the organization to be.
I ask that you immediately and publicly denounce this move
by VeriSign.
I ask that you issue statements both as an individual and as
a member of ICANN. If you do not issue such statements, I
intend publicize widely your failure to do so.
It is time for you to take a stand. Either you support the
Internet as it exists today, are you elect to be part of
the interests that are moving to destroy it.
I would like to know.
Gene Gaines
gene(_dot_)gaines(_at_)gainesgroup(_dot_)com
Sterling, Virginia USA
+1 703-433-2081
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 6:02:59 AM, Zefram wrote:
Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net
zones.
This is, as already noted, very dangerous. We in the IETF must work to
put a stop to this attempt to turn the DNS into a directory service,
and quickly. I suggest the following courses of action, to be taken
in parallel and immediately:
0. Urgently publish an RFC ("Wildcards in GTLDs Considered Harmful", or
"DNS Is Not A Directory") to provide a clear statement of the problem
and to unambiguously prohibit the practice.
1. Via ICANN, instruct Verisign to remove the wildcard.
2. Some of us with sufficiently studly facilities should mirror the COM
and NET zones, filtering out the wildcards. Then the root zone can
be modified to point at these filtered COM and NET nameservers.
3. Instruct ICANN to seek another organisation to permanently take over
COM and NET registry services, in the event that Verisign do not
comply with instructions to remove the wildcard.
I believe that the direct action I suggest in point 2 is necessary,
because we have previously seen the failure of the proper channels in
this matter, when Verisign added a wildcard for non-ASCII domain names.
Verisign have shown a disregard for the technical requirements of their
job, as well as displaying gross technical incompetence (particularly
in the wildcard SMTP server). I believe Verisign have forfeit any moral
right to a grace period in which to rectify the situation.
-zefram
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