It should be noted that each country has adopted different trademark
classifications, much to the glee of international trademark
lawyers and to everyone else's expense.

I must admit that after much thought about this I wonder about the
wisdom of using an external citation as the reference of 'validity'
of a DNS name. The problem is that there are so many different
citation points of reference and no clear uniformity or hierarchy 
between them all, that a DNS system which attempts to reference
various external citation points still cannot resolve name clashes
cleanly and in my humble view does little to solve the problem.

Subdividing the DNS into citation points (rbn.vic.com.au for
company names registered with the VIctorian Business Office
for example) clearly does not make dns namesany easier,
and I suspect that the attempt to map external name systems
into the DNS will fail in the long run simply becuase of the 
extention of the cintation authority into the name makes an
uncomfortably long name.

So is First Com First Served a viable policy? Well tempered
by some form of allocation management which is intended to
precvent an individual or single corporate entity engaging in
massive name hoarding (either direct policy or indirect through
pricing policy) it may well be the best answer.

Geoff





At 03:02 PM 7/10/97 +1000, Chris Chaundy wrote:
>At 13:52 10/7/97, Stephen Baxter wrote:
>>> Yes - this has been discussed in other forums - there are about 50 or so
>>> trade mark categories which would require separate 3LDs to resolve this
>>> problem (luckily 'tm' is nice and short) - there are some extremely
>>> unusual groupings in these categories.
>>
>>Hello Chris,
>>
>>Do you have any web references for these groupings ?
>
>See http://www.piperpat.co.nz/tmclass.html (found from my trusty
>search engine harking back to an earlier posting ;-).
>
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