As I mentioned before, given that the whole point of .alt is that
people are implementing things that look like DNS names but are
resolved in some other way, the winner of any such conflict is the one
with widely used running code.
Yah. If I'm launching a new namespace that resolves based upon
<something>, I have an incentive to choose a string that isn't already
being used by some other large, well known project, in the same way
that it would be silly for me to write a new UNIX program that does
something like cowsay (but with kittens) and call it 'cat'.
Exactly. The ICANN approach is what I might call the gold rush model --
people dash out to grab likely looking territory and squat on it before
anyone else does. This is more like homesteading -- there's a practically
unlimited amount of territory, anyone can get some, but it you want to
keep it, you have to live on it and improve it.
Regards,
John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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