Namespace conflicts

Fri Mar 9 01:27:20 UTC 2001

More precisely, the courts started getting involved as soon as
first-come-first-serve stopped working fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of Shawn
McMahon
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:16 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Namespace conflicts

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:51:30PM -0800, bob bownes wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, if my TV let me type in "CNN" and it came back with
> > the right channel, that would scale beautifully as long as nobody else
> > was dumb enough to name their channel CNN.
> >
>
> Or dumb enough to name it IBM...Therein lies part of the problem.

I don't see that it's a problem.  First-come first-served worked fine
until the courts got involved.