Re: First come/First served

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Bob Allisat allegedly said:
> 
> 
> Kent Crispin wrote:
> >You realize, of course, that by making all iTLDs non-exclusive
> >(shared), the issue of FCFS vs other means of allocation really
> >becomes moot?  Also, if the license agreements were reasonably
> >crafted, legal complications over who owned the right to be a
> >registry for a particular domain would be minimized.
> 
>  Yes. But it's technically clunky,
>  conceptually flawed and impossible
>  to implement reasonably in a dispersed
>  and decentralized network environment
>  like the Internet. 

Wow.  Nice buzzwords.

Bob, you have it exactly backward, of course.  It's the exclusive
ownership iTLD model that is conceptually flawed, and impossible to
implement reasonably in a dispersed and decentralized network
environment like the Internet. 

>  This isn't an office
>  LAN eh, Mr. Kent? It's the world we're
>  talking about here. As in Big+Complex.

Mr. Bob, I never thought it *was* an office LAN we were talking 
about.  And I am quite aware that the Internet is Big+Complex.

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