- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:51:41 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
[Lee Quin:] | > My point was that you can make your own publisher prefix without | > getting permission from, or paying an annual fee to, a naming | > authority. | | Of course, when you discover that the European division of | Sun Life's software division has been using SUN:SUNSOFT as an owner | identifier for several years, you'll wish there had been a registry, and | all the trademark lawyers in Washington couldn't win you that battle :-) This is a question of internal coordination. We deal with much more difficult coordination problems than this one. | This is why the ISBN is used. [...] I don't see anything magic about ISBNs that will prevent people from misusing them. I only see recourse after the fact. Jon
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