McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'

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."

Comments

lets think of it neutrally

[Anonymous Coward]

If we think of the SiteFinder plan neutrally, granted, Verisign is offending most internet users and probably scerwing up the internet. But we should also think in terms of the average internet user - which is Joe Click-a-mouse. The internet is not all about linux, unix, code etc. It is also about usability. And if we think in this fashion it appears plausible that, *i might be wrong*, sitefinder might help people find the site they want?

tell me, how else would they find what they want if they dont have a complete URL? Suppose you had a wrong URL or did not remember the right URL? How would you find out the right one? Its impossible without sitefinder.

Shitefinder...

[nigels]

The Verisign Business Model:

Embrace, extend, extinguish...

Re:The Internet Will Break...

[LadyLucky]

Well, technically he's correct. The internet didn't break. Well, maybe that's because somewhere upstream of me someone's blocking the sitefinder service. So there was no breakage! Yay!