Re: get technical, please? , Re: Trees have one root

Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:07:47 PDT, Ed Gerck said:
>
> > This is an automatic reply to your request for:
> >
> > Harris.COM
> >
> > 2 different domain names are named Harris.COM
> >
> > Please choose which one of the following domain names you
> > would like to reach, by clicking on the link shown on the right.
> >
> > Harris Motor Company at Harris.COM
> >
> > Harris Models at Harris.COM
> 1) You find out about the "other" domain *how*?
>
> 2) Explain how to deal with the case of "fred(_at_)harris(_dot_)com" being a 
> valid
> destination for more than one site?
>
> 3) Do you intend that this would work like multiple A records for one
> name, where you basically get luck-of-the draw, or would you have an MX-style
> scheme were there are preferences, so if you've figure out which "fred@"
> you mean, it will keep going to that one rather than the OTHER one?  What
> happens if harris.COM changes registrars while I'm not looking - does my
> mail bounce because it's pointing at some OTHER harris.com now?
>
> 4) Tell me what my Listserv system should do with a subscription request
> from an ambiguous address - I already get <*censored*> enough bounce messages
> from bogus hostnames,
>
> 5) Tell me what my CGI script should do when it prompts the user for a
> e-mail address or URL.
>
> 6) "2 matches found:
>
> Harris Motor Company at Harris.COM
> Harris Motor Company at Harris.COM"
>
> Which one's the typosquatter?  Or are they the SAME company, similar to
> companies that register foo.com and foo.net? (you didn't actually expect
> them to list "Harris Typosquatters" as the organization, did you? ;)
>
> And now repeat your explanation so my mother the Hotmail user can follow it.
That is actually easier, so I'll take the bait ;-)

Hotmail would show to their users a screen similar to that one which I just
mentioned here, for automating the process and leveraging previous
choices (if you so wish and as you so wish).  Everything else (including
your items 1-6 above) would be handled by Hotmail and is transparent to
the user, but following the user's decision rules.

BTW, please note that your case #6 just leads to an upper level, where
it can again become decidable. For example, if two companies are named
"Harris Motor Company" (which may legally happen, for 50 "Harris Motor
Company" in all 50 States), then you would have:

-------------------
This is an automatic reply to your request for:

Harris.COM

2 different domain names are named Harris.COM

Please choose which one of the following domain names you
 would like to reach, by clicking on the link shown on the right.

Harris Motor Company, "The Best Car at Any Price" at Harris.COM

Harris Motor Company, "Built Like a Rock" at Harris.COM
-------------------

BTW, this would be a neat -- and correct -- use for trademarks.
To provide for unique business identifiers that have a legally restricted
jurisdiction.  Not to provide for unique domain names that by force
have a planetary jurisdiction.

Cheers,
Ed Gerck