8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
8:27 p.m.
More precisely, the courts started getting involved as soon as first-come-first-serve stopped working fine. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Shawn McMahon 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.