] When asked why VeriSign did not inform the Internet's
] technical organizations of the change in advance,
] O'Shaughnessy replied: "There's not much I can add
] except to say that our testing and the resources
] we've applied toward this have been in accordance
] with prevailing industry standards for new products
] and services."

If Verisign is not removed I will get involved with an alternate DNS system.

] O'Shaughnessy said there's no need for any outside
] organization to get involved. "There's some religiousness
] that's been brought to bear here besides the technical
] reality," he said. "We're fully compliant with every
] RFC," O'Shaughnessy said in reference to the technical
] standards that govern the Internet.

Bullshit. And the RFC situation is going to change Real Soon Now.

] When asked why VeriSign did not inform the Internet's
] technical organizations of the change in advance,
] O'Shaughnessy replied: "There's not much I can add
] except to say that our testing and the resources
] we've applied toward this have been in accordance
] with prevailing industry standards for new products
] and services."

"Because they would have said no."

Ok, the ISC has patched BIND.. The AIB is against this, and has said they are now writing guidelines for running the NIC. No major anyone or anything has stood up and said this is "good". Well, aside from end-users who don't really understand that their browser should be doing what they see, not the damn heart of the DNS system. But VeriSign is going to stick to their guns though.. So this is going to be a very messy fight.

I think in the end, this is really just going to be a big loss for VeriSign. All the browsers and the ISPs are going to take this out of their hands, very fast. They will be forced into making the NIC behave again.

They must behave or be replaced. Personally, I don't think they should be running .com/.net, A, RS, anything. They cannot be trusted.