At 05:40 PM 4/27/2001 +0100, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > > > If you didn't own it on /1, then you can't use it. > > > > The intention is that an entity can mint tags on a date d when > > it was unassigned, if it became the assignee of the authority > > name _immediately_ after the continuous period of [...] > >How would you qualify "_immediately_" in this case? What period of >time? For example, there might be objections to this from a person who >controlled a certain date space from 1 to 2-1-5 only to find that >someone who registers the same domain name on 20-2 starts using 2-1-6 >as a namespace :-) We'd need an authoritatively managed persistent database that recorded all assignment and unassignment events, to a resolution of a day. Then 'immediately after' would be well-defined. I'm getting the point that we don't have such a thing currently. Thanks, Tim. Tim Kindberg internet & mobile systems lab hewlett-packard laboratories 1501 page mill road, ms 1u-17 palo alto ca 94304-1126 usa www.champignon.net/TimKindberg/ timothy@hpl.hp.com voice +1 650 857 5609 fax +1 650 857 2358Received on Friday, 27 April 2001 12:58:09 GMT
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