<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">On August 29, 2016 at 11:46:04 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer (<a href="mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr">bortzmeyer@nic.fr</a>) wrote:</div> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div></div><div>On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:08:58AM -0700,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>a message of 69 lines which said:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>> I'm curious: how does waving the magic blockchain wand around<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> address two non-cooperating entities wanting the same name in a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> "fair" manner<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The blockchain implements First Come First Served without the need for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>an organisation to manage the registry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>Sure, and that works nicely when the commodity in question is fungible. Names generally aren't considered fungible.</p><div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div>So, it works between<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>"non-cooperating entities": one will have the name, the other will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>have to admit defeat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>For some (in practice useless in the context of the DNS) value of the variable "works."</p><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div>Whether or not FCFS is "fair" is a matter of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>opinion.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div><div id="bloop_sign_1472496413973501952" class="bloop_sign"><br></div><div id="bloop_sign_1472496413973501952" class="bloop_sign">I'm sure domain name squatters (and lawyers who get paid to go after the squatters) will think that quite "fair."</div><div id="bloop_sign_1472496413973501952" class="bloop_sign"><br></div><div id="bloop_sign_1472496413973501952" class="bloop_sign">Regards,</div><div id="bloop_sign_1472496413973501952" class="bloop_sign">-drc</div><div id="bloop_sign_1472496413973501952" class="bloop_sign"><br></div></body></html>