Michael Mealling writes: > Because, particular codifications of it in the law aside, it represents > a pretty good description of how human beings cognitively use names and > words. No, it simply represents the way trademark holders force others to do their bidding. IP law is already enough of a pox on society as it is, there's no reason to make it worse by encoding it in the world's only global computer network. > It has many centuries of operational experience and it apparently > works for everything humans need it to. Centuries of experience for trademarks? I seem to recall it being much younger than that. And abuse of such concepts has increased exponentially over the past few decades. > But for some reason those of us who designed the Internet seem to > think we're above all of that and can dictate a system to the end > users that's dissonate with how they actually think and view the > world. Except that 99.999% of all Internet users do _not_ think in terms of trademark law. Only a handful of extremely wealthy corporations think in that way. > Well, I didn't want to get into specifics but from what I've seen a URI > with a service identifier tag seems to be fine for everyone that has > looked a the problem.... So you shouldn't be nervous, the web seems to > be working just fine.... What do URIs not have now that they need? _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf