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voice your anger on ICANNs website
Authored by: voldenuit on Oct 03, '03 06:49:21PM
ICANN is to hold a meeting on the 7th of October 2003 where Verisigns incredibly provocative hijacking of .com and .net will be discussed.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-30sep03.htm

Background information about the issue :

http://www.icann.org/general/wildcard-history.htm

ICANN has set up a website

http://forum.icann.org/wildcard-comments/

where the interested public elaborates on the disgust this standard-breaking hostile takeover of DNS inspires us and how we are not willing to tolerate this.

mailing to

wildcard-comments@icann.org

will get your comments there.

You should keep in mind that anything short from reverting things to as they were before, does not solve the issue and lots of extremely useful functionalities are broken by this commercially inspired hijack of the DNS.

If you want your contribution to count, try to keep it on the point in a way that the slightly bureaucratic people on the committee will be able to relate to your wording.

There are around 135 comments by now with an average of 20 postings per day, so you can really make the difference !

It is probably a Good Thing™ to

  • say why you are an elder statesman of the internet and as such deserve even more credit for the point you make
  • mention how it breaks things for your own professional activity
  • insist that if ICANN is useful at all, that +right now+ is probably a good time to prove it. Stopping sitefinder today, take away registrar accreditation from them tomorrow and set up operations for .com and .net rootservers by some trusted not-for-profit foundation as soon as technically possible is what I feel needs to be done.
  • point out that the internet will only be as useful as it was in the past, when steps are taken to make sure that no private interest of any corporation or nation, USA included, prevent root-DNS-service to be run "by the RFC".
  • Whenever unsure how to handle a situation, the honest answer to the question "How would Jon Postel have handled it ?" will, more probably than not, be the way to go.
It is quite impressing how much better results a clued single human being with an extremely sophisticated net.culture is able to achieve compared to the mess ICANN has stirred up recently.

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