[IP] more on USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW (DNS) naming scheme

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

From: Larry Tesler <tesler@pobox.com>

Dave,

On that geek.com page, some people who, unlike the author, actually read 
the claims point out that they are far narrower than the characterization 
below.

What is claimed is:

 1. A method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a 
group comprising the steps of:

 assigning each member of said group a URL of the form 
"name.subdomain.domain"; and

 assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form 
"name@subdomain.domain;"

 wherein the "name" portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the 
same and unique for each particular one of said members such that an only 
difference between said URL and said e-mail address for said member is that 
in said URL the "@" symbol of the e-mail address is replaced with a "." and 
wherein said "subdomain" portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the 
same for all members of said group.

 2. The method of claim 1 wherein said members of said group comprise 
members of a licensed profession.

One comment mentions RFC 1034, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1034.html:

"The usual mail address <local-part>@<mail-domain> is mapped into a domain 
name by converting <local-part> into a single label (regardles of dots it 
contains), converting <mail-domain> into a domain name using the usual text 
format for domain names (dots denote label breaks), and concatenating the 
two to form a single domain name. Thus the mailbox HOSTMASTER@SRI-NIC.ARPA 
is represented as a domain name by HOSTMASTER.SRI-NIC.ARPA."

Prior art?

Larry 

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