Greg
Such round-robin DNS games is fine for load distribution among different
servers in a cluster and all content is the same company. However, you'll
never find a marketing person who will agree to that, nor any other
business person. I want www.mhsc.com to come up with MY site ALL the time,
every time. You suggestion will break commercial use of the Internet.
At 04:59 PM 2/2/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote:
>[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
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