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Re: MultiBind Testers Wanted


From: woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:34:33 -0400 (EDT)


[ On Tuesday, April 10, 2001 at 14:33:35 (-0700), Paul A Vixie wrote: ]
Subject: Re: MultiBind Testers Wanted 

However, the product name is protected.  "MultiBind" may be an infringement
of ISC's rights to the BIND product name.  In any case, this derivative of
ISC's work is not sanctioned or approved by ISC in any way, and in fact
ISC's long-held position is that any proposal involving "multiple root
networks" is nothing short of domain piracy and also violates the DNS
protocol.

Now I know you (ISC) guys are nuts.  "BIND" is, literally, the "Berkeley
Internet Name Domain" server.  If ISC's claiming rights to that basic
acronym that was invented and existed long before ISC or even Paul
Vixie's involvement with BIND then I'm going to have to go somewhere and
get violently sick now....  If anyone other than UCB owns the name it's
either Kevin Dunlap or Mike Karels.  Certainly one of the latter is
likely to be able to claim to be its creator.

(note that of course "ISC BIND" is an entirely different critter)

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