On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, guy wrote:
Then I suggested someone needs to maintain a master list of top level
domains, these should never get black listed. Some top level domain are
really sub-domains. This list would include "com.", "net.", "edu.",
I (Guy Watkins) reserve the rights to this idea!
Please don't make statements like this on public list!
If you're wishing to "reserve right to the idea" then go and file a patent!
But if you have not done so and instead posted the idea to public list,
its no longer your to "reserve" although you can request that if others
use the idea or futher work on it, that they attribute the initial idea
to you in their work (i.e. see 10. Contributors and Acknowledgements
section of spf protocol doc which attributes it all the way to Jim Miller)
In any case, I believe I've seen this idea on one or two other lists
(possibly even this one) before, do a seach on google on whitelisting TLDs
or global whitelisting.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net