[35443] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: new.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Eddings)
Thu Mar 8 21:33:49 2001
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:53:56 -0800
To: Mathew Butler <mbutler@tonbu.com>,
"'Simon Lockhart'" <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>, richb@pioneer.ci.net
From: Ken Eddings <eddingsk@apple.com>
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No don't do that. I get too much mail from well-meaning folks that
think our registry records have been hacked.
No. I usually depend on Network Solutions to hack our records, ;-)
Cheers,
At 4:59 PM -0800 3/8/01, Mathew Butler wrote:
>You -could- always do the whois-type thing, where ALL records
>containing 'apple' are returned, on first access to the name?
>
>-Mat Butler
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simon Lockhart [<mailto:simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>mailto:simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk]
>Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:32 PM
>To: richb@pioneer.ci.net
>Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Re: new.net
>
>
>
> >Therefore any company which creates a broader hierarchy is not motivated
>>by what's best for Internet users, who are best served by a simple
>>hierarchy (IBM is IBM is IBM no matter what you append to it).
>
>Okay. You picked an example which proves your point. However, there's
>plenty of exceptions. Who should have "apple" in this flat namespace?
>Apple Computers? Apple Records? Apple Fruitstore?
>
>While the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a fairly well-known
>name worldwide, what gives us more claim to "bbc" in the flat namespace
>than "Big Blue and Cousins" or "Baptist Bible College" (bbc.org and
>bbc.edu respectively)? Have we now got bbc.com because we had a greater
>claim to it, or because we had the better lawyers?
>
>Simon
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