[I am not on the dnsproc-en list, so you have my permission to forward
my response there if you wish. --gregbo]
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The problem, as Vint Cerf has recently highlighted, is that DNS and
>trademark law are fundamentally incompatible. One simply can not have
>multiple references for the same name, unlike in trademark law,
>because geo-political proximity issues, a compromise which much
>trademark law is based on, are eliminated by the Internet itself. The
>only solution possible is that trademark law can not apply to DNS
>entries a priori. They must be adjudicated ad hoc.
Actually, one may have multiple references for the same name. People
do it all the time. My company has several IP addresses for its web
site, that are offered in a round-robin manner for load sharing.
Now the question becomes, would the Internet community accept this
type of solution, that you would "share" your name (and thereby, your
traffic) with other organizations who had that name? (I realize this
example is a bit silly, but I'm trying to illustrate that sometimes,
how people feel about a situation may constrain or dictate certain
policies even though a technology may support alternatives.)
--gregbo
