Namespace conflicts

Fri Mar 9 00:05:16 UTC 2001

Actually, the courts aren't well engaged right now. They've been
short-circuted by the UDRP. UDRP arbitrators are NOT courts. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:smcmahon at eiv.com]
> 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.
> 
> 