Re: [wg-c] Unique DNS Root or "usability", question for Tony

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

On 23 November 1999, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:
>
>You exhibit a remarkable consistency -- that site contains absolutely
>no real information about the "SuperRoot Consortium" -- it's just
>another "no one knows you're a dog" web site, claiming to represent
>the world... 
>
>Whois gives a little more info:
>
>The SuperRoot Consortium (SRC) (SUPERROOT6-DOM)
>   P.O. Box 920804
>   Sylmar, CA 91392-0804
>   US
> 
>   Domain Name: SUPERROOT.COM
> 
>   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
>      Higgs, Simon  (SH89)  simon@HIGGS.NET
>      310-900-6116 No Fax
>   Billing Contact:
>      Higgs, Simon  (SH89)  simon@HIGGS.NET
>      310-900-6116 No Fax
> 
>   Record last updated on 05-Nov-1999.
>   Record created on 05-Apr-1999.
>   Database last updated on 23-Nov-1999 13:34:44 EST.
>
>Strangely enough, the listed address is precisely the same as Simon 
>Higgs address:
>
>B/home/kent[2]whois sh89
>
>Higgs, Simon (SH89)             simon@HIGGS.NET
>   Higgs Communications
>   P.O. Box 920804
>   Symar, CA 91392-0804
>   310-900-6116 No Fax
> 
>   Record last updated on 12-Apr-1999.
>   Database last updated on 23-Nov-1999 13:34:44 EST.
>
>


What's your point, Kent?  Are you now saying that people who have identical
addresses in their handle and the org fields are suspect, or the services
found at the IP(s) to which that domain name is assigned are suspect?

This is just grasping at straws.  Next you'll be insisting that it's suspect
because it's a P.O. Box.

-- 
Mark C. Langston
mark@bitshift.org
Systems Admin
San Jose, CA