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Verisign's SiteFinder - An Engineer's View

Posted by simoniker on from the find-this dept.

ixs writes "CircleID has an interesting article by David Monosov about Verisign's plans to reintroduce Sitefinder. The article presents the thesis that the Internet engineering community is partly to blame for Verisign's ability to mess with the .com and .net root zones. According to the author we spend too much time with our systems and not enough with politics. The writeup was previously posted to NANOG and received a favorable response from Paul Vixie."

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  1. What? by MarsCtrl · · Score: 4, Funny
    According to the author we spend too much time with our systems and not enough with politics.

    What? I don't have to listen to this! I'm going back to my desk!
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    I was going to put a sig here, but I had already submitted the message.
  2. enough time by abhisarda · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the author we spend too much time with our systems and not enough with politics.

    Ok. Who watches CPAN here? Time to throw out our congressmen(and women) and take their places on capitol hill.
    And make our congressmen code monkeys. Don't be surprised if you frag down your senator on CS then.

    1. Re:enough time by warkda+rrior · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, I see, it's CSPAN I should be watching, not CPAN. Obviously a typo...

      Does CSPAN support regexes?

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      You need to install an RTFM interface.
    2. Re:enough time by Soko · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ummm... CPAN? Ohhhh, I see - And make our congressmen code monkeys. - laws written in Perl. Might be more understandable then. :P

      (BTW, it's CSPAN. I know that and I'm even Canadian.)

      Soko

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      "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
    3. Re:enough time by PacoTaco · · Score: 4, Funny

      laws written in Perl if($campaign_contribution > 1000000) { $law .= $amendment; }

    4. Re:enough time by dmayle · · Score: 2, Funny

      That couldn't be a law, it's WAY too easy to read. C'mon, this is PERL, it should be fairly easy to make it unreadable...

  3. politics by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 4, Funny

    the problem with politics is that you need to get political in order to make sure people don't get political

  4. From the Article: ISC by metroid+composite · · Score: 1, Funny
    On who should be controlling these, the article says:
    ISC (previously mentioned in this context) would indeed be a fine choice as it has proven itself to be reliable and politically independent over time.
    Right, I'm an ignorant user who doesn't pay much attention to this politics stuff. Before I write any letters supporting ISC, what's Slashdot's general oppinion of the group?
  5. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the author we spend too much time with our systems and not enough with politics.

    No shit, Sherlock. That's why we're engineers.

    Mike

  6. No, silly by metroid+composite · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot should Slashdot Washington DC. Let's stick with what we do best!

    1. Re:No, silly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Slashdot should Slashdot Washington DC. Let's stick with what we do best!

      You're right. There's already enough pasty, sexless geeks in the D.C. area. We wouldn't want to scare away its female population.

  7. If I ever go to make politics... by Advocadus+Diaboli · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...then my first goal would be to abandon money. :-)

    All this mess is caused by people that try to maximize their profit. Just imagine a world without money, nobody would need to send spam mails because there is no profit to make. Ok, sorry, was just kdding.

    But I hope you see the point. I guess the price we have to pay for globalisation and outsourcing important infrastructure things from governments to private companies is that those things might get abused by morons that want to get a maximum profit.

    But since I'm not able to lie so well I'll guess I'll keep stuck to engineering and won't make a careeer in politics.