>Joe Sims wrote:
>> law). Regulating the content of web pages ("copyright or offensive
>> content") does not seem to
>> involve any technical management function.
This makes me wonder why ASCAP ( a copyright organization) is so heavily
involved in the IP constituency.
I do disagree strongly, by the way, with the contention that trademark law
has anything to do with technical function. As has been said a multitude
of times, current civil law takes care of "cybersquatting." The DNS works
equally well if McDonalds.com maps to a sheep farmer in Scottland.