Re: The trademark issue

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

John R Levine allegedly said:
> 
> >The only methods to do these things involve strong cryptography, ...
> 
> Not really.  The problem of authenticating members of a shared
> registry group is easier than the general authentication problem,
> because the members of the group know who each other are and the group
> changes slowly over time.  That means it's practical to assign each
> registry a secret password and distribute it off-line, e.g. by sending
> a diskette by registered mail.

[simple, elegant algorithm not vetted for correctness snipped]

That's a good idea, and I think you proposed something similar a 
while back on shared-tld.  However, it would require a front-end 
to any third-party or commercial software used to support shared 
registries.  

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