- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:51:33 -0400
- To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
- cc: dehora@eircom.net, uri@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> *nothing* needs to > change to put my proposal into use. The problem I see is how you make a domain name, even issn.iana.org, stable. It seems totally possible that 5 years from now iana will change its name, and politcal winds will make it really, really want to change issn.iana.org to issn.joePoliticanMemorialIANA.org. Or someone could forget to pay the bills. I've lost a domain that way. I pushed pretty hard and was assured that even verisign couldn't get its own domain back (unless trademark law applied) if it forgot to pay the bill on time. And it's not only individuals who forget to pay bills (I'm thinking of microsoft forgetting to pay for hotmail.com). Presumably, if enough was built on the exact name, there would be enough of a back presure that the domain could not be taken away, but ... it's a concern. -- sandro
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