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Re: Publication(was 60 day waiting peroid.)
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:25:57 -0800 (PST)
- From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
- Subject: Re: Publication(was 60 day waiting peroid.)
David Collier-Brown allegedly said:
>
[...]
> Rather than inventing a new format, perhaps the existing
> DNS would suffice.
>
> Imagine, for a moment, doing a dns search for ``mycompany.XXX.tm.us''
> and finding an RP and a txt record
> saying ``requested by boss@mycompany.com 28 July 1944 for My Company
> Inc., 123 Nowhere St., Podunk, Ohio, USA (416) 555-1212"
> NO ns records, no mx, no backwards mappings, etc, etc.
It also has the fatal flaw that trademark conflicts are fuzzy
matches, and DNS doesn't support fuzzy matches.
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov the thief he kindly spoke...
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