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McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'

Posted by timothy on from the problem-with-public-versus-private dept.

simeonbeta2 writes "Mark McLaughlin, Senior VP at Verisign, has an editorial up on news.com. McLaughlin casts the debate over sitefinder in terms of 'innovation' versus the status quo and threatens that stifling 'innovation' will lead to a weaker internet." There's more -- read on below.

psimeonbeta2 continues:"Additionally (shades of Darl) he suggests that an anti-capitalism animus is behind the resistance to sitefinder. This despite the known problems that sitefinder caused and despite the fact that breaking the DNS standards may have constituted a breach of contract on Verisign's part. Resistance, he concludes, must be due to some sort of techno-religious fervor.

While Verisign's chutzpah certainly doesn't rise to fiaSCO levels, I find the similar tones in spinning the issues at hand to be truly disturbing. Not only did Verisign screw us by changing how the internet works at a fundamental level, now they purport to be irritated that we didn't thank them for the favor! At least in this case the good guys(cherish this moment, ICANN!) won."

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  1. I kind of like SiteFinder by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sometimes I misspell URLs and I actually *like* having a service that attempts to find the site I'm looking for.

    I'm not saying that people who are against it are anti-capitalist or anything, but they certainly are a bunch of knee-jerk reactionists.

  2. His stance by DJ+Rubbie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    His stance is just like those record houses who try to "innovate" on the CD standards to prevent "piracy". Altering the base DNS entries for their own gain and claim it dealt no harm is just like them making a CD-like disk that breaks the CD standards and claiming it to be a CD. Result of Verisign's arrogance caused broken spam filters and programs, so did the "broken" CD's damaged various computer systems (most notibly the Mac's).

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    Please direct all bug reports to /dev/null
  3. Re:Look at it from both sides... by jhunsake · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which is why you're fucking idiot. This "idea" has been around, and put to "good use", for years and years. Where have you been?

  4. Re:Look at it from both sides... by jhunsake · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) I hope you are trolling on this part too. There are more than a few services: they don't distort the results, you can actually get a response in your language, they can be turned off, and the list goes on and on.

    2) You're still a fucking idiot.