Re: FCFS and prior use

["David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>]

Kevin,

>Goverments cannot claim they own ip numbers or the fabric
>rips. Why DNS names? 

Names are not technilogically constrained to be hierarchical -- IP addresses
are.  As long as a government administers a TLD in a consistent and
functional manner, nothing significant breaks.  If a government (or anybody
else) were to assign addresses incorrectly, the basic underlying
infrastructure of the Internet would partition and this would be bad(tm).

>"Please please Mr Government
>man, don't use that Class B, it was given out years ago....." ) Get
>real.......

Well, actually, the registries do ask this (sort of -- not for B's,
but for lots of discontiguous Cs, we do).

>No one has ever explained why we expect national
>orgs to toe the line re IP space and allocation, but not toe any line re
>TLD policy?

Because if the IP address space gets scragged, the Internet stops working If
.MM gets scragged, people in Myanmar register in .COM or elsewhere, but the
Internet still works.

>Can you explain the difference. I am in the dark here. 

Hope that helps.

Regards,
-drc