Re: net.stewards [Re: BitTorrent (Was: Re: [Isms] ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it)]

"Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@mcsr-labs.org> Fri, 16 September 2005 16:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: net.stewards [Re: BitTorrent (Was: Re: [Isms] ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it)]
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> Generally, the existence of an assignment authority does encourage
> its (proper) use - mostly for the reason you state above. Just as 
> "nobody will want to accept an official registration polluted by 
> prior use", "nobody" (deliberately in quotes) will want to attempt 
> to establish an unofficial registration using the approach you've
> described.  Doing so is - at the very least - going to adversely
> affect popularity and is very likely to result in interference and
> potentially even litigation.

"litigation"?

Do we have prior art that this is a likely result?

Spencer, honestly confused (for once)...

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