this verisign wildcard silliness

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:

> Is there some organization that is over Verisign that I could file
> a complaint with?

That would be ICANN (http://www.icann.org/) which is the body that
took over from IANA that was and which has contracted Verisign to run
the .com and .net domains and (some or all of?) the gTLD DNS servers.
I've seen claims on slashdot and on the NANOG lists that Verisign's
latest actions have put them in breach of their contract terms, and
calls for ICANN to dump them and choose someone less avaricious
instead.  However, ICANN has just received an extension of their
mandate from the US Department of Commerce for another 3 years and
good luck (you'll need it) in getting any sort of action out of them.

Personally, I think that ICANN should be subsumed by the ITU, which is
a United Nations organisation and that seems to be much more effective
at what it does and a lot less beholden to factional interests.

There's some ... interesting ... traffic on the ICANN GNSO General
Assembly mailing list at
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/ (GNSO = Generic Names
Supporting Organisation, which is the sub-committee that deals with
issues to do with the DNS generic Top Level Domains.  It's always a
bad sign when an organisational chart fills up with so many
impenetrable acronyms...)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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