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        RFC 2240

        Title:      A Legal Basis for Domain Name Allocation
	Author(s):  O. Vaughan
        Status:     Informational
	Date:       November 1997
        Mailbox:    owain@vaughan.com
        Pages:      7
        Characters: 13602
        Updates/Obsoletes: None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2240.txt


The purpose of this memo is to focus discussion on the particular
problems with the exhaustion of the top level domain space in the
Internet and the possible conflicts that can occur when multiple
organisations are vying for the same name. No proposed solutions in
this document are intended as standards for the Internet. Rather, it
is hoped that a general consensus will emerge as to the appropriate
solution to such problems, leading eventually to the adoption of
standards.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute