ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 20, 2003 @01:21AM from the trying-the-polite-approach-first dept.

dmehus writes "ICANN issued an advisory late today concerning VeriSign's controversial SiteFinder service. The advisory requests that VeriSign voluntarily suspend SiteFinder until various independent and objective reviews, which are now underway, have been completed. Interested parties should see the advisory for more details." I think most people here can agree it was a bad idea, although it's not generating revenue for most of us either. ICANN isn't alone here either. Nuclear Elephant writes "The Internet Architecture Board issued this response to an ICANN inquiry about Verisign's SiteFinder service."

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I'd love to have been a fly on the wall... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-20 01:28 · Score: 5, Interesting

...in the meetings in which Verisign decided to implement SiteFinder.

Do you think they innocently believed they had found a valid loophole for commercial exploitation a legitimate feature of the Internet protocols?

Or did they say something like this? "Well, OK, so it does violate DNS specifications. People will scream. Let them scream. Nobody can touch us. The IETF has only moral authority. And ICANN and the U. S. Department of Commerce are never going to interfere seriously with any big, successful Internet company. So a few technies get angry, big deal."