According to a post on NANOG list, Verisign will change the serial
number format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA
records on or shortly after 9 February 2004. According to the post "this
serial number format change is in preparation for potentially more
frequent updates to these zones."
The relevant NANOG thread seems to have already covered all issues
involved including "possible" RFC problems. I am posting this here so
people should be aware of the change.
Relevant NANOG post is here:
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg00794.html
Related InfoWorld story here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/08/HNverisigncom_1.html
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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
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