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Re: Namespace conflicts

  • From: Henry R. Linneweh
  • Date: Sat Mar 10 15:55:19 2001

UDRP REFERENCE:
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/udrp/library.html

Roeland Meyer wrote:

> Actually, the courts aren't well engaged right now. They've been
> short-circuted by the UDRP. UDRP arbitrators are NOT courts.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:16 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Namespace conflicts
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:51:30PM -0800, bob bownes wrote:
> > >
> > > > On the other hand, if my TV let me type in "CNN" and it
> > came back with
> > > > the right channel, that would scale beautifully as long
> > as nobody else
> > > > was dumb enough to name their channel CNN.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Or dumb enough to name it IBM...Therein lies part of the problem.
> >
> > I don't see that it's a problem.  First-come first-served worked fine
> > until the courts got involved.
> >
> >

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