[11849] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: "Everybody Lock and Load: this could get nasty..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Smart)
Fri Apr 22 00:11:01 1994
To: Namedroppers <namedroppers@rs.internic.net>,
Privatizing the Internet <com-priv@psi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Apr 1994 13:57:39 -0400."
<01.1994Apr21.13h44m11s.PAUL-0100000@TDR.COM>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 09:27:58 +1000
From: Bob Smart <smart@mel.dit.csiro.au>
One way to avoid the contention for names in .com would be
to add a numeric layer below .com. For example abc.5.com
would be the 5th company that wanted to register as "abc".
[I'm not suggesting changing existing names, just the allocation
of new ones.]
Bob Smart