(My rephrasing of Mitch Ratcliffe's notes)

Sclavos: "The next three years of innovation in technology is about integration. ... We route half the calls in North America and will move that to the Internet in the next year. The RBOCs are both our largest customers and our largest competitors.

This is not your grandfather's Internet. It's time to stop playing consensus builder and go commercial, like every other industrial revolution.

We need to move the complexity back into the center of the Net. The edge can't be so complex.

SiteFinder was a way of monetizing DNS searches. We're not going to let this go. We are laying the groundwork to bring back SiteFinder, and we will find new ways to monetize DNS. We will talk more about this in the future."

Here we go again with the "we've always done it that way" argument.

I find it telling that Sclavos thinks the Internet is just another industrial revolution.

] Asked about the SiteFinder address redirect trick Verisign
] rolled out. A group of "200 technical zealots" were
] against it and they got all the headlines. Did they
] misinterpret it? Of course. We're not going to let this
] go. It is going to be the point where we answer the
] debate.
]
] He then goes on to say that we need to move the
] complexity back into the center of the Net! He says the
] edge can't be so complex. Get David Isenberg in here!
] Ross Mayfield, sitting in front of me, laughs out loud. I
] am dumbfounded. According to Verisign, the Net should not
] be open to any type of application, only applications
] that rely on single providers of services, like Verisign.

There is going to be a hell of a market in alternative DNS systems and in technology that makes it easy for people to live with multiple DNS systems...

] Asked about the SiteFinder address redirect trick
] Verisign rolled out. A group of "200 technical zealots"
] were against it, and they got all the headlines. Did they
] misinterpret it? Of course. We're not going to let this
] go. It is going to be the point where we answer the
] debate.

Just one flash mob can forever settle that.

] He then goes on to say that we need to move the
] complexity back into the center of the Net! He says
] the edge can't be so complex.

Back? Center? What?!

This is all a ploy to control the net. There is nothing else it can be. There is no way you can understand the Internet and make a statement like that otherwise. Substitute "power" for "complexity" in the paraphrased statement, and you have their motive.

Its not like that's new news, but its still infuriating!

Bring on the alternative naming systems!!