Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

[Ian Mason]

At 00:01 08/01/2004, Ian Mason wrote:

> At Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:46:23 -0500, Matt Larson wrote:
>
> > VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
> > format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on
> > or shortly after 9 February 2004.
> [snip]
>
> >   But because these
> > zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet
> > community know about the changes in advance.
> Matt, was it not possible for Verisign to give more than 30 hours notice 
> of these changes? This is an Internet-wide change that will very likely 
> break some systems somewhere. Surely more notice would have been reasonable.
>
> The notice actually given is so short as to be almost worthless. It might 
> have raised Verisign's moral stock around here if more notice had been 
> given, or even some consultation issued. As it is, Verisign seem to have 
> moved in a way that, yet again, is likely to convince the community of 
> Verisign's apparent arrogance and contempt towards the rest of us. Sad.
Whoops, here I sit with egg on my face. My excuse for misreading the date 
was it was late in the day here after a busy evening.

I unreservedly apologize for my haste in condemning Verisign and withdraw 
my remarks.

I shall now go and penitentially stand in the very heavy rain and wind that 
England is enjoying today.

Ian