how to solve TM collision

[Laurent BERNARD <lbernard@artinternet.fr>]

Hi,

It's been a long time since my neuron worked well, but I've got
an idea :

The problem on this matter is : the TM space accepts duplications of names,
not the DN space (you may even see TM names "hired" by plural companies,
paying for the right to use a name in their business, look at car names :
retailers pay to use Ford, or others, in their adverts ...)
This problem gets more complicated as the DN space is used internationnaly.

I think it would be possible, and even easy, when more than one company claims
for the same domain name, to implement a generic page saying :
"you've reached IBM switch page.
Here is the Institute of Bonn for Management :
http://ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/
Here is the International Business Machine home page : http://www.ibm.com/
...... "
(so what, I could choose microsoft :-)
(of course, it would work better with URLs like www.ibm.computer.com and
www.ibm.private.schools.com, thats the aim of the demonstration).

Then, when a second company asks for xyz.com, the registry would create
this kind
of switch page, change the routing table, inform (not beg for authorization
!) the first
"owner" of the domain that its page has been moved to a new address, and grant
an SLD domain to the other claimer.
This is not incompatible with the fact that a claimer should be asked to
declare officially
he has some right to ask for this domain, including wether as for a
family-name domain
(Hi Mr Higgs :-), an association (Hi ISOC, International Society for
Oblivion of Computers :-),
or a commercial company, or whatever.
It should not be the responsability of the registry to verify, nor to
assume the consequences
of TM infrigment for its customers.

As many claimed : to whom a DN belongs to ? COMMUNITY or NOBODY.
Then responsible structures may enforce this kind of system which gives
everybody 
a chance to be reached, and it should then be the responsibility of the
registry(ies) to
offer as a service this switch page, IMHO. (hey, they get paid for it !).
And most of all, everybody would be accessible with a SIMPLE address at the
end.

Somebody has aspirin ?
(please, no flames, or privately. I receive enough mail I don't care from nice
people insulting ITHO other nice people for bullshit on this list. Thanks for
the working people here).


Laurent BERNARD
"Not knowing it couldn't be done, he went ahead and did it"