At 07:54 PM 8/17/99 , Kevin J. Connolly wrote: >in the root. That's what we're here to discuss; that's >what you keep trying to pull the discussion away from; OK. We have lots of common agreement. Why not agree the new TLDs are brand names, let the legacy maintainers hold onto their brands, and parcel out the rest by some mutually agreeable fair method (e.g., lottery) --tony