Paul Vixie On What DNS Is Not

CowboyRobot writes "Paul Vixie (AboveNet, ARIN, ISC, MAPS, PAIX) has a fresh rant titled What DNS Is Not about the abuses of the Domain Name Server system. 'What DNS is not is a mapping service or a mechanism for delivering policy-based information. DNS was designed to express facts, not policies. Because it works so well and is ubiquitous, however, it's all too common for entrepreneurs to see it as a greenfield opportunity ... a few years ago VeriSign, which operates the .COM domain under contract to ICANN, added a "wild card" to the top of the .COM zone (*.COM) so that its authoritative name servers would no longer generate NXDOMAIN responses. Instead they generated responses containing the address of SiteFinder's Web site — an advertising server.'"

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Re:Sorry we didn't stay in your box

[BitZtream]

Insufficient data.

You certainly punish the child, regardless of why the did it. If daddy puts a gun to your head and says kill this man or I kill you, you still committed a crime and have to be treated as such. The punishment does however take the parents into account in some limited cases, such as the parents still being the legal guardians of the child. When the child is no longer a child, but a consenting adult, then it really doesn't matter what the parents did. Adults are responsible for their own actions. PERIOD. Its not just about punishment, its about protecting the rest of the world as well.

If the child never had any direct interaction with the grandparents then they are clearly off limits.

If the parents were not involved after birth, and the grandparents were, they effectively become the parents and assume all responsibilities for that roll, they could have put the child up for adoption had they wanted to avoid those responsibilities.

You simply didn't not provide enough information.