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Re: Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-02 10:49:41
Search on "whitelist ipv6".  Results are topical.  What's the conflict here?


On May 2, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:



On 5/2/2011 7:32 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
I disagree that "whitelisting" is a reserved trademark of the anti-abuse 
community.  It's a general term for a list of things that are granted 
something.  Likewise with "blacklist" and "deny".  Which means it's 
perfectly appropriate for this document.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist>


Richard,

The trademark model is interesting and probably useful here.

Trademarks have context.

Search on "whitelist dns"

Since there is long-standing practice of anti-abuse use of the term for A 
records there as no doubt it would be -- and indeed is -- need to use it for 
AAAA records.

d/

-- 

 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
 bbiw.net

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