Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 9:54 PM -0800 12/10/96, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> > Wow.  Glad you aren't moderating this list.  I had assumed that the IAHC
> > wanted to review and possibly decide exactly these things.  If we wanted
> > to let the courts decide how to implement the naming system, why even
> > have an IAHC?
>
> Whatever decision we or the IAHC makes about trademarks and domain names
> is of no relevance.  That decision will be made by the legislatures and
> courts of the various countries, assisted by those who have the money to
> go to court or lobby their legislative representatives.
>
> We/IAHC *can* decide how to operate a name registry and/or DNS hierarchy.
>

Please address the entire space under ".". I am really, really,
concerned about the continued focus on iTLDs. This may be where the
majority of the problems lie, but any solution must be for TLDs as a
whole. Otherwise, you will have completely destroyed the spirit of
RFC1591.


Simon

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