Re: [Asrg] [IP] 4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight Spam

[Mark Baugher <mbaugher at cisco.com>]

At 01:51 PM 6/29/2004, David Wall wrote:

> All good points.  I just hope Yahoo realizes that the term DomainKeys may be
> trademark-able as it relates to their product, but we've used the term
> DomainKeys in code (right down to the same InterCap, as that's common in
> Java class/interface names!) for some time, as it relates to the keypairs
> that we assign to domains within our own technology.

I'd say that puts the word in the public domain in many countries but 
IANAL.  I don't expect that even US copyright law lets someone take a 
pre-existing term and copyright it for its pre-existent meaning.

Mark

> Like MSFT's claim to
> "windows," I hate the idea that one day we'll be forced not to use such a
> common, descriptive name for the keys that belong to a domain.
>
> David
>
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