Re: use the lukewarm farce...

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 1:12 PM -0800 1/1/97, Bill Manning wrote:

> > Your example for WIPO does this for trademarks, and I'm sure D & B
> > would be able to make use of this. I know of several other examples
> > that would as well. This type of example requires an exclusive registry
> > model.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > --
>
> 	My example removes the problem of trying to create a solution at
> 	the root level.

Why the specific need to avoid the root?

>    Any regarding your comment about exclusive registry
> 	models.... whats your point?
>

You are still giving a monopoly to a single registry (WIPO.INT). It
doesn't matter at what level that monopoly is, especially if the
mapping is very important like trademarks.

If you do that, why not let business use DNS to provide value added
services to their existing core business? That way the private sector
would solve the directory service problem at no cost to I*.

> 	My point is that WIPO or D&B or any other number of entities could
> 	take on the problem of well known marks and leave the rest of the
> 	domain service as "void of intellectual property".
>

As opposed to "void of intellect" as it is now? ;)

Regards,

Simon

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