Re: Specific goals

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Larry Masinter writes:
> I would like to find some forum (whether IAHC or somewhere else) for
> discussing the larger issues of naming in the Internet.
> 
> It is my belief that we could find and deploy a scalable solution for
> naming in the Internet that would deal with:
>   * trademark conflicts
>   * internationalization: a desire to use other than ASCII
>     in names
>   * fuzzy match (detect misspellings and close spellings but not
>     "search")
>   * authority
> 
> and that these names would be useful for both electronic mail and for
> URL/URN replacement.

Much of this is beyond our scope, I'm afraid.

Perry
Speaking for myself, but I suspect there is wide agreement on this.