This is cut. Apart from the fact that it's garbage, the site certificates
don't work. They have been signed over to research.netsol.com and some
browsers will warn you that the issueing computer is not the connected
computer.
Maybe network solution might want to fix this.
regards
Joe Baptista
http://www.dot.god/
dot.GOD Hostmaster
+1 (805) 753-8697
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, James Love wrote:
> Network Solutions' Common Name Resolution Protocol
>
> The text below is from:
>
> http://cnrp.research.netsol.com/
>
> So just what is CNRP?
>
> The Common Name Resolution Protocol allows you to send queries and
> receive results for a specific set of things that we call Common Names.
> Common Names (CNs) are names that are engineered to behave the way human
> beings use names.
>
> For example, people are perfectly comfortable with two different
> things being called the same thing. When we say something about "Joe
> Smith" we don't worry about the fact that there are probably several
> thousand Joe Smiths in the world. We know that we're probably limiting
> the scope of our discussion to some known understood geographic area or
> circle of friends.
>
> On the Internet the names that have been used to date are all
> engineered to make life easy for the machines. We as humans don't need
> dots, dashes, squiggles and colons to be able to get by. So why should
> we have to conform to the machines? Why can't we get them to handle
> names for things the way we do normally?
>
> That's where common-names come into play. CNs have three
> attributes that ordinary Internet names such as email addresses and URLs
> don't have: non-uniqueness, parameterization and an unlimited character
> set. Those big words just mean that
>
> 1.Non-uniqueness -- two objects can have the same name.
>
> This means that very often when you use a common-name you will
> be asked which one out of a list is the one you are really looking for.
>
> 2.Parameterization -- a common-name query can include other
> information such as the location, topic or language you happen to be
> interested in.
>
> This means that you can contain a given common-name to the
> geographic region that it applies to. For example, there may be two
> "Joe's Pizza". One is in Atlanta and the other is in New York. CNRP
> allows you to specify the area in which you live so that when you look
> up "Joe's Pizza" you don't get the one on the other side of the planet.
>
> 3.Unlimited character set -- A common name can include any
> character in any language.
>
> In your common name you can include spaces, puncuation spaces,
> exclamation marks, chinese language characters, etc. The options are
> unlimited and allow you to best symbolize your name.
>
>
>
>
> Examples
>
> Here are some examples. If you have our Internet Explorer plugin
> installed then click below to see to it in action:
>
>
> go:Microsoft
> go:Network Solutions
> go:Michael Mealling
>
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> James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
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