If they register a three letter message prefix with IBM then they are left with 5 characters for individual products/requests.
On Thursday, June 22, 2017, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0500, Brian Westerman wrote: > > >I know we had to contact CA and Sterling, as well as Landmark Systems > about using our offset. The only one that gave us a hard time about it was > CA, who told us they "had it first", and then tried both money and threats > to have us give it up and go back and ask for another one. I believe our > legal-eze, highly professional response was something like "pound salt". > > > I assume that worked. Good. What was your legal ground: > o Implied warranty of merchantability? But any clever vendor will > expressly disclaim that "to the extent permitted by state law". > o Contract language to that effect? > o Pound salt? > > Had CA squatted on their claim before IBM established a registry? > > >... we decided that name/tokens were probably a better way to go ... > > > What precludes collisions of name/tokens? Simply bigger name space? > But remember the birthday problem -- pretty soon someone will suffer. > "com.syzygyinc.xx"? (16 isn't enough!) > > --gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
