[35440] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Namespace conflicts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Hain)
Thu Mar 8 20:56:20 2001
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From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
To: "Shawn McMahon" <smcmahon@eiv.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:27:20 -0800
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More precisely, the courts started getting involved as soon as
first-come-first-serve stopped working fine.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Shawn
McMahon
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:16 PM
To: nanog@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.
