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September 16, 2003
ICANN Silent but IAB Anything But
The Internet Architecture Board has roundly condemned the Verisign action to hijack the Domain Name System. Here is a short excerpt:
The IAB feels that the system VeriSign had deployed for .com and .net contains significant DNS protocol errors, risks the further development of secure DNS, and confuses the resolution mechanisms of the DNS with application-based search systems. The IAB understands the efforts that VeriSign has made to limit the applicability of this system to queries which would normally not correspond to registered domains, and it recognizes the importance of the distribution of IDN-capable systems to end users. While the IAB agrees with VeriSign that rapid adoption of IDN-capable systems is desirable, the IAB feels that the very limited gain in distribution cannot balance the shortcomings of this deployment strategy.
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Posted by mikki at September 16, 2003 08:24 PM
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