Heh. ICANN has thrown Veri$ign against the wall and told them to fix their changes to the Internet, or else.
Given these conclusions, please consider this a formal demand to return the operation of the .com and .net domains to their state before the 15 September changes, pending further technical, operational and legal evaluation. A failure to comply with this demand will require ICANN to take the steps necessary under those agreements to compel compliance with them.
[…] Given the magnitude of the issues that have been raised, and their potential impact on the security and stability of the Internet, the DNS and the .com and .net top level domains, VeriSign must suspend the changes to the .com and .net top-level domains introduced on 15 September 2003 by 6:00 PM PDT on 4 October 2003. Failure to comply with this demand by that time will leave ICANN with no choice but to seek promptly to enforce VeriSign’s contractual obligations.
I look forward to VeriSign’s compliance by the date specified.
You go, guys.
(via BoingBoing)
Heh. Go get ’em!
Veri$ign has backed down for the moment, all the while claiming people like the way they’ve fundamentally changed the Internet, and that ICANN is a bunch of bullies who didn’t give them a fair hearing.
Heh.