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Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management
From: Simon Higgs <simon () higgs com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:49:37 -0800
At 12:18 PM 2/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:36:31 PST, Vadim Antonov said: > 1) first-come first-served registration Unfortunately, the concept is totally borked right here, mostly because of the use of DNS as a yellow-pages. Two companies that own trademarks in different fields of business both have to register under .COM (ok, so they *could* register under .US - hah), with the obvious outcomes we've known to love and enjoy (Anybody remember who the *original* owner of abc.com was?)
That's the point. Two (or more) companies don't *HAVE* to fight for identical flat space. This unique naming thing is all fine and good, but it is highly explosive/toxic within a confined space - especially one that is artificially constrained. The name space is fortunately flexible enough to accommodate competing companies and identical marks.
The alt.roots have already provided a working proof of concept without all the B.S. I'd even to so far as to say Randy Bush's recent description of an ideal ICANN ("icann only needs to a) coordinate allocation of address space to the RIRs, b) maintain the root zone file, c) slowly try to get MOUs with the folk icann actually serves") describes ORSC far better than it does ICANN.
There's no way you can pile 23 million (or however many it is now) things into one level of namespace and actually expect people to play nicely.
Aw... now you're preaching to the choir... ;-) Best Regards, Simon -- ###
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- ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Patrick (Feb 25)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Vadim Antonov (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management vince (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Vadim Antonov (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 26)
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- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management vince (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Vadim Antonov (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Vadim Antonov (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Simon Higgs (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management David Conrad (Feb 26)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management Simon Higgs (Feb 27)
- RE: Tauzin-Dingell (was ICANN) Daniel Lark (Feb 26)
- Re: Tauzin-Dingell (was ICANN) Patrick (Feb 26)
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- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management BrandonButterworth (Feb 27)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 27)
- Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management BrandonButterworth (Feb 27)