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Thu Mar 8 22:23:06 UTC 2001

At 05:05 PM 3/8/2001 -0500, you wrote:

>Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > Whats international trademark+patent arrangements say about this?
> > See, .com is not all US-registered, and so if you were going to do
> > something like this, where do non-US people fit in here?
>
>I think that's precisely the issue at hand.  How does one administer a
>global flat name-space, given the lack of any global entity with the
>authority to do so?

Rich, it's called the Internet. Things happen without a NATO for ISPs or users.

Regards,

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