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Re: FCFS and prior use

Karl Denninger writes:
> > 	I'd be interested in seeing some explanation for, and discussion
> > of, the reason the first come/first served is necessarily the assignment
> > scheme that must be used.
> 
> Because you recognized the over 100 existing cases in which that assertion
> is currently operative (COM/NET/ORG/EDU/ISO-codes)

Huh?  Are you *really* asserting that if someone came along and wanted
to run -- I don't know, any ISO code that isn't currently used by the
country in question -- the IANA would let them run it?  I think the ISO
country codes are anything *but* first come first served.  They're
reserved for the countries themselves to dispose of.

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