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RE: new.net
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:44:13 -0800
That idea sank in WG-C. I saw it go down. The oil-slick has even dissipated and the survivors have been hauled out of the drink and dried off already. I've been one of the chief opponents to trademarked TLDs and Intellectual Property incursions into this DNS mess. Where were you? I could have used the help. I am very much anti-WIPO and the UDRP is a WIPO brain-fart. Over the past five years, I have occasionally gone through here, trying you get NANOG folk involved, even before the ICANN. However, even this subject matter has been suppressed here for a long time. Now that new.net has come up with some serious capital clout, y'all finally wake up. Well, it's about three years late and a whole lot more than a buck short. Hell, I don't even care if you agree with me or not. The issue is to get involved for the long-term. Technical issues are NOT divorced from politics, as much as you would like it to be so. Like business issues control IT policies, ICANN politics will control the Internet, unless y'all speak up, regardless of what you say. What you say, strongly indicates that you have not been following the issues.
-----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:26 AM To: Scott Gifford Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: new.net On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:07:15 EST, Scott Gifford said:I like the idea of creating a new ".tm" TLD (or somethingless likelyto conflict with a CCTLD), and requiring anybody who wants trademark protection to register there; everything else is afree-for-all, as itpretty much is now. Let them have their little trademark disputes over there, and let less litigious heads rule in the other TLDs.Still broken. Trademarks are for use within a given business segment - that's why you can have an Apple Computer and an Apple Records - one is in the computer business, and one is in the music business. Apple Computer *did* have to promise Apple Records to never engage in the music business in order to use the trademark (this became an issue when QuickTime and other similar technologies threatened to blur the distinction). You'd need to have a .computer.tm, a .music.tm, a .automobile.tm and so on for all the categories recognized by the trademark office... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
Current thread:
- Re: new.net, (continued)
- Re: new.net David Schwartz (Mar 09)
- Re: new.net Josh Richards (Mar 10)
- Re: new.net Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 12)
- Re: new.net richb (Mar 08)
- Re: new.net Martin Hannigan (Mar 08)
- RE: new.net Mathew Butler (Mar 08)
- RE: new.net Ken Eddings (Mar 08)
- Re: new.net Shawn McMahon (Mar 09)
- RE: new.net Mike Batchelor (Mar 09)
- RE: new.net Ian Cooper (Mar 09)
- RE: new.net Roeland Meyer (Mar 14)
- Re: new.net Stephen Kowalchuk (Mar 14)
- Re: new.net Patrick Greenwell (Mar 14)