>On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 02:59:30PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote:
>> >On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 01:14:54PM -0500, Mikki Barry wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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
>
>Do you mean "case cite" as in "citation"? There is no need to provide
>such a citation -- registration in DNS is a "use" on its face -- if
>nothing else, it's use is to prevent someone else from using the name
>for some other purpose.
Again, "use" in the legal sense is NOT mere registration, and this point
has been hammered home over and over in US cases.
>[...]
>>
>> 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.
>
>Some would be using the phrase "re-engineering of the DNS" in a truly
>idiosyncratic way, then. The mechanism of registering a name is
>completely separate from the operation of the DNS. DNS works fine
>without any registration mechanism whatsoever -- when I assign domain
>names to hosts on my network there is no registration involved...
Wonderful! I guess this means that we don't need any of these pre-emptive
registration impediments for technical reasons. So why are we arguing
about it at all? I only regret it's taken so long to get to this point.
