Re: First come/First served

[tor@wtv.net (Bob Allisat)]

Ray Panko wrote:
>While first-come/first-served is fair in many senses, it
>would not avoid the big problem that we face in domain
>naming today.  This problem is that names are extremely
>important assets of organizations.  They are also
>extremely important to customers.  If I see DukeU, I want
>to know that this is the University, not some flim-flam
>artist using DukeU.com to make it seem like messages are
>coming from a university.  In the commercial world, there
>are well-defined ways for handling conflicts in naming
>among corporations in the same commercial area and in
>different commercial areas.  The problem we have today is
>that the single .COM domain makes it impossible to create
>such rational compromises.  As everyone knows, the Internet
>is now largely commercial.  We need to be hospitable to
>that world.  The composition of the team now assembled
>seems reasonable for addressing domain name compromises in
>the commercial world.

 The composition of the team is
 reasonable to preserve the status
 quo. None of the Alternative Domain
 holders or dissenting vocies have
 been included in the process.

 And if you, as an individual, can't
 determine the differance between a
 scam and reality how, pray tell,
 will any group or organization?

                             Bob Allisat

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