[ga] BIND Patches Make Bad Situation Worse - ICANN strikes out addressing site Finder..

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  Well I figured this would happen.  So it seems the
stability argument from ICANN was more likely a political
struggle with Verisign rather than a stability issue.

Thank god our BindPlus is still stable as well as
verisigns own BindPlus...

And so the saga continues....

See:  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/15/1524247
An anonymous reader writes "After [0] .COM and .NET started using a
wildcard, the internet community busily started creating patches to
various pieces of software to circumvent this. It was [1] said 
that this was a grave problem to the internet. Several 
[2]official BIND patches were [3] announced over the next 
few days. However, it turns out they weren't necessarily 
too well thought through. Usage of the patch
unexpectedly [4] broke at least 7 Top Level Domains, 
ISC announced 3 weeks later, after users [5] started 
having problems. The [6].NAME registry has sent 
[7]a formal letter to ICANN's [8]Security and
Stability Advisory Comittee to warn against using 
the BIND patch, which they will look into in their 
next meeting. The intention may have been good,
but... Stability? Anyone?"

Links:
    0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210&tid=95
    1. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-users&m=106373300829218&w=2
    2. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html
    3.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-announce&m=106378709918671&w=2
    4.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-announce&m=106582817511646&w=2
    5. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15431.html
    6. http://www.nic.name/
    7. http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gnr-to-secsac-13oct03.pdf
    8. http://secsac.icann.org/

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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