Security and Stability Advisory Committee

Background Materials

Letter from Global Name Registry (GNR) to SECSAC (PDF) (13 October 2003)

Museum Domain Management Association - Statement Concerning Wildcard A Records in Top-Level Domains (6 October 2003)

Wall Street Journal report of VeriSign change (5 September 2003)

Computer Business Review report of VeriSign change (9 September 2003)

New York Times Announcement of VeriSign change (15 September 2003)

ICANN Advisory Concerning VeriSign's Deployment of DNS Wildcard Service (19 September 2003)

ICANN asks VeriSign to voluntarily withdraw the service.

IAB Commentary: Architectural Concerns on the use of DNS Wildcards (19 September 2003)

Notes that use of wildcard records conflicts with "no such name" responses.

Proposes guideline for wildcard use: If you want to use wildcards in your zone and understand the risks, go ahead, but only do so with the informed consent of the entities that are delegated within your zone.

Letter from Russell Lewis to ICANN (21 September 2003)

VeriSign declines to withdraw the service. They will research the effects and take the appropriate action upon completion.

ICANN SECSAC Preliminary Recommendation regarding wildcard records (22 September 2003)

Calls on VeriSign to voluntarily withdraw the service.

Calls on ICANN to examine procedures for service changes.

Calls on technical community to define the use and operation of wildcard records in TLDs and the root domain so that expectations can become universal.

Public Interest Registry supports suspension of VeriSign DNS wildcard service (23 September 2003)

Notes that such efforts to alter the TLD DNS system adversely affect the Internet infrastructure.

Internet Society Chapters and Advisory Council Oppose SiteFinder (29 September 2003)

Calls for suspension of the service

Supports ICANN and DoC taking necessary action to stop VeriSign

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