- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:35:53 +0900
- To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Cc: Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>, public-ws-policy@w3.org
Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:53 -0500, Christopher B Ferris wrote: >> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4103 >> >> Title: Questionable use of fictitious corp. name "Contoso Ltd." > > > > I unfortunately missed the call this week despite Felix asking me to > attend, but looking at the thread and the discussion on issue 4103, I'd > like to point that W3C have guidelines in terms of domain name in > examples: > [[ > Domains in examples adhere to section 3, "Reserved Example Second Level > Domain Names," in RFC 2606 [DOMAINS]. Use the domains example.com, > example.org, and example.net for all examples. The Internet Assigned > Numbers Authority (IANA) reserves them for this purpose. If you need an > evocative name, use a machine name (e.g., http://cats.example.org). > ]] > http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#Examples > > Contoso Ltd. doesn't come up as a trademark in the USPTO and a google > search seems to agree with that fact as well. I don't believe we have > guidelines in terms of trademark... yet. I talked to some other people within w3c, it is true that there are no such guidelines yet. One proposal which came up was to use a company name which could be Contoso, but a domain which includes example.com . Hence, we would replace the company name Contoso with Contoso.example.com, an do the same for URIs, e.g. http://real.contoso.com/policy.xml > http://real.contoso.example.com/policy.xml Alternatively, we could pick up "company A" and have http://real.a.example.com/policy.xml Felix
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