[35422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Thu Mar 8 17:28:37 2001
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 17:23:06 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
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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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Martin Hannigan hannigan@fugawi.net
Fugawi Networks Engineering
Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net
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