RE: A philosophical question about large directory structures

How is this related with the D&B number of companies?

thanks,
Zahid


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave J Woolley [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 10:06 AM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: A philosophical question about large directory 
> structures 
> 
> 
> > From:	Erik Skovgaard [SMTP:[email protected]]
> > 
> > Since the Directory name registration is closely tied to 
> the legal names
> > of
> > companies in most countries, I think that makes for a much 
> better choice.
> > 
> 	I don't think you can rely on this.  At one time domain
> 	names in the UK were tied to legal names, but, once name
> 	registration was privatised, names became a valuable commodity,
> 	and you even got companies buying up names speculatively.
> 
> 	To guarantee well behaved names in the long term, you really
> 	need legislation or a government agency; formation of the 
> 	latter is against the trend in the Western world.
> 
> 	About the only commercial entities with an interest in 
> 	administering a well behaved namespace are people like
> 	Verisign.
>