Adrian Chadd wrote:
Whats international trademark+patent arrangements say about this? See, .com is not all US-registered, and so if you were going to do something like this, where do non-US people fit in here?
I think that's precisely the issue at hand. How does one administer a global flat name-space, given the lack of any global entity with the authority to do so? Right now, lawyers get paid big bucks by international firms to protect a trademark or company name in a multitude of jurisdictions. -rich
At 05:05 PM 3/8/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Whats international trademark+patent arrangements say about this? See, .com is not all US-registered, and so if you were going to do something like this, where do non-US people fit in here?
I think that's precisely the issue at hand. How does one administer a global flat name-space, given the lack of any global entity with the authority to do so?
Rich, it's called the Internet. Things happen without a NATO for ISPs or users. Regards, -- Martin Hannigan hannigan@fugawi.net Fugawi Networks Engineering Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net Ph: 617.742.2693 Fax: 617.742.2300
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