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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: Two sites with the same name ?????
Message-ID: <870@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 14:30:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 25 14:30:14 1984
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Policy on conflicting names is that the first site to get the name REGISTERED
gets it.  As the only current registry is Usenet, and since the garfield
in Newfoundland has been registered and well known on Usenet for some time
now, it seems pretty clear that Newfoundland got there first.

This isn't the first time this happened.  There are two machines calling
themselves iuvax - one at Indiana University (they have been registered
for a long time) and one at SRI (on which Kashtan did Eunice) that has
never really been announced.  Of course the one in Indiana has priority.

I also seem to recall another collision, with one of of the sites somewhere
in Florida, but I can't recall who.  Does anyone remember?

Note that a UUCP registry is being started up, and once that gets going,
it will be the authority which gives out names.  As UUCP mushrooms, collisions
are going to become far more commonplace.  To get a name, a site will
have to request it from the registry and confirm that it isn't already
registered.

	Mark Horton