Re: 60 day waiting period

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 12:37 PM 01/13/97 -0500, Leo Smith wrote:

>Carl Oppedahl asks...

>> How, given what you have said
>> about the courts of all of Asia and a good part of Europe, do you propose
>> to deal with the problem of insufficient URL and domain name stability
>due
>> to challenges by covetous trademark owners?

>..."THE PROBLEM OF INSUFFIECIENT URL and domain name stability". What
>analytical factors did you use? From a quantitative analysis standpoint, in
>your opinion, what percentage of URLs needs to be unstable in order to for
>a sytematic problem  to exist in sufficiently large numbers to warrant a
>systemic solution? 

The analytical factors I used were that nearly all URLs (and nearly all
domain names) are presently unstable, since a trademark challenge may
arrive at any time.

I would feel a systemic solution would be warranted if 1% of domain names
were unstable.