>On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 01:14:54PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote:
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>> As the usage,
>
>registering a name in DNS is a use of the name.
Please provide a case site. The only cases I've read on the subject hold
exactly the opposite. The only cases even close to that state that the
offer for sale of a domain name could be a commercial use.
>
>> and not the mere existance of identical character strings as
>> IP number identifiers is the real issue, this is indeed an attempt to
>> re-engineer the DNS to conform with policy, and not with technical matters.
>
>"re-engineer"? are we changing how resource records are used? are
>we changing the caching mechanism? are we changing the meaning of
>the time-to-live field? as far as I know, the only work to
>reeingineer dns takes place in the IETF working groups devoted to
>the topic...
Some would say that changing the mechanism by which one registers a domain
name (to provide for exclusions, or to mandate trademark like searches,
etc.) would be a "re-engineering" of the DNS system. I agree with that.
