RE: A philosophical question about large directory structures

A core problem being people started to introduce trademarking as well and we
all know the same trademark-name can be used multiply in the real world e.g.
a 'Widget' trademark on a mechanical device and a 'Widget' trademark on a
piece of software are considered two different things.

Each country has a company registration authority.  If this was considered
the 'authoritatitve' directory for comany names and the were federated, we'd
have a good thing!

Andew Probert
Rotek Consulting   http://www.rotek.com.au
a Division of Secure Network Solutions
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dave  J Woolley [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 24, 1999 3:06 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.