[35508] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Namespace conflicts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat Mar 10 11:54:53 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Shawn McMahon' <smcmahon@eiv.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:05:16 -0800
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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@eiv.com]
> 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.
>
>
