Re: [wg-review] Re: dndef, 9

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Eric Dierker wrote:

> Ok, so now that you emphatically disagree. Let us set forth that it can be used in different ways and one has to look at
> the context in order to clearly ascertain it's meaning.  Can we agree that it can be a Noun? Adjective?

I'm more inclined to look at it as a tabula rasa (blank slate).  Context 
*may* determine *its* association, but this does not imply context as a 
necessary condition.
For instance, the term "songbird" has a specific meaning in the English 
language.  Our fellow WGer Kent Crispin has staked out the relations and 
associations of  "songbird" within the scope of the COM universe.  He 
was the first to get there, so he chooses what it will be.  Now is 
songbird.com a noun or an adjective? you tell me, please.

> To be sure I agree with your basic premise that we reach the least amount of obsurdity if we consider Domain Names as
> property. OTOH I believe the contracts Mr. Crispin refers to are using it as a service, I am wincing here because I only
> have second hand knowledge of some of those contracts.

Which contracts specifically?


Sotiris Sotiropoulos
       Hermes Network, Inc.


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