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.
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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