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Re: [ga-roots] Capture and Diversion (was Smart Browsers)
On 2 May 2001, at 13:58, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> At 17:31 01.05.2001 -0700, Kristy McKee wrote:
> >IMHO this is beyond ICANN's scope as Bret mentioned ealier: the IETF is
> >the place for decisions like these to happen; therefore if we do have an
> >opinion I recommend we direct it in their direction.
>
> not even there....
>
> In my opinion, there are 2 different levels:
>
> - Resolving an URL or other identifier that contains a domain name. That
> needs to be done "honestly", in that the result of the resolution is what
> the owner of the domain name expected to happen when the resolution was
> attempted in that context.
> The reason for the recent lawsuit in Korea was that someone was "hijacking"
> the (embedded-in-browser) hostname "search.microsoft.com", causing it to
> resolve to something not sanctioned by the name owner.
> Eugene Kashpureff was jailed for the same type of reason.
And what happens when there is a duplicate .BIZ and people enter
<something>.biz and do not reach the .biz they expected to reach?
chicken and egg? Who is re-directing the DNS for .BIZ when one was
there first?
>
> - Presenting an input field to the user, receiving input from the user, and
> translating that into something that the user expects.
> Here we delve into the realm of user interface, something well beyond the
> control of ICANN policy pronouncements, and well beyond the realm of "one
> size fits all".
> I have yet to see a browser user interface that directs me to something
> other than the URL in question when I type "http://www.alvestrand.no/" or
> equivalent; however, typing "alvestrand" in my 2 installed browsers
> provides different results (one a guessed hostname, the other a search result).
>
> I think this particular community, which concentrates on ICANN and the
> domain name system, needs to focus on the first one.
>
> The IETF, being a technical protocol standardization community, can
> reasonably focus on mechanisms to support functions like those mentioned in
> the second group (such as the recently completed CNRP keywords protocol
> specification). But restricting user interfaces is beyond the scope of the
> IETF.
>
> (BTW, the opt-out for URL-field searching in IE 5 is Tools/Internet
> Options/Advanced/Search from the Address Bar/When Searching/Do not search
> from the address bar)
>
>
>
>
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