On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 08:36:17 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: >>one problem we kept running into was that not everyone >>registered their use with IBM and apparently we had some >>people's favorite offset number, so occasionally we >>would have people step on us. > >If you have any detailed information on this (such as anything that might >identify the culprit), perhaps you could share it offline with me. > >I truly find it rather hard to believe that anyone would be so >irresponsible as to do this.. > And there's little practical defense. Requiring authentication won't work because the offender was probably APF-authorized. Is this perhaps a license violation? But it's not worth the legal fees to pursue.
Name/token has a similar weakness. Might the vendor rely on embedding a registered trademark or domain name (16 characters is too few) in the name? But enforcement remains a problem. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
