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Re: Namespace conflicts


From: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh () concentric net>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:42:21 -0800


UDRP REFERENCE:
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/udrp/library.html

Roeland Meyer wrote:

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.



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