Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 1:27 PM -0800 12/23/96, Michael Dillon wrote:
>A random string in a domain name is simply not acceptable at all. It

...
>A fundamental characteristic of the DNS must always be that human beings

	Michael, I suspect that it will be a long search to find anyone who
actually *likes* the use of random strings.  So the issue, here as always,
is to balance requirements against constraints.

	Take a requirement to give every mark holder a domain name that
contains the string used in the mark.  How do you propose to satisfy it?
What is a scheme that will always ensure that -- whatever is going on
elsewhere in domain name space -- there is a domain name for them that
contains their string?

d/


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