Dear Milton, thanks for this. I understand our colleagues at the Brazilian 
Internet Steering Committee are formally asking for clarification from GNSO 
on this. Hope all others do and there is enough pressure on Verisign to 
immediately change their unacceptable practice.

fraternal rgds

--c.a.


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Carlos A. Afonso
diretor de planejamento e estratégia
Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
http://www.rits.org.br
member (interim), Brazilian Internet Steering Committee

At 10:13 19/09/03, you wrote:

>Hi, this message is from a former NCUC member who believes we should pay 
>more attention to the VeriSign redirection of domain names to a search 
>site. This has been a hot controversy and will be discussed on the Council 
>next week. I assume that most of us are against this practice, altough the 
>issue of how much authority ICANN has to do anything about it remains less 
>certain. The ALAC has taken a position against it. Please provide me with 
>your opinion. --MM
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>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:04:13 -0600
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>From: Neal McBurnett <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Milton Mueller <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask],
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>Subject: Outrage at verisign/network solutions over wildcards
>
>Hi, NCUC folks.  I (and the Boulder Community Network - BCN) was
>active when NCDNHC was originally formed, but somehow managed
>to fall out of membership, it appears.  We'll get that straightened
>out soon.
>
>In the meantime, I just looked at the NCUC discussion list archives, and
>don't see any discussion of what I see as a huge current issue: the
>lastest abuse by Verisign (Network Solutions): using their control
>over the .com and .net registries to advertise their registrar
>by establishing a wild-card record for *.com and *.net.
>
>I think NCUC should take an immediate stand against this as has
>the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC).
>
>I've collected (in a rather unpolished way so far...) many of
>the issues at
>     http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ietf/verisign-abuse.html
>
>Please lend your insight into the ICANN legalities and politics
>to this discussion.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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