Re: "Clash" of site names

[Jim Welch <jw@research.troy.ny.us>]

>   What would be the effect if the namespace was seen to be ``just
> names''.  Would not the weakest similarity suffice to cause
> anger in the heart of a trademark owener?  Or in the heart of a
> non-commercial international body like Save the Children?

Unavoidable, isn't it? For trademark owners, at least, there is
recourse in the courts.

>    I suspect (I haven't appreciated this yet, but I'm going to jum to a
> conclusion) that the Domain Name System contains ``leaf'' domains,
> whose name id of great importance to them, and ``interior'' domains,
> which are navigational in nature.
>    And I fear that confusing the tw owill lead us to an unpleasant
> end.

I think this may be an important point. It has substantially
influenced my DNS proposal, now at

	http://research.troy.ny.us/leafnodes