Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 11:12 AM -0800 12/27/96, davidk@ISI.EDU wrote:

> The best what the IAHC can do is design a system that avoids lawsuits
> against the IAHC, CORE, IANA, registrars and registries by trademark
> owners and serves the needs of the Internet users (including commercial
> ones). The IAHC shouldn't design a system that serves the needs of a
> particular group of Internet users: trademark owners. It's the problem of
> the trademark owners to police the DNS *and* not the problem of the IAHC
> or anybody else involved in running the the DNS system.
>

This is reasonable. The IAHC cannot design a system that avoids
lawsuits. Period. What they CAN do is design a system that limits
lawsuits and disputes as effectively and efficiently as possible.

That was why I wrote draft-higgs-tld-cat. So far not one person has
shown a more effective way of limiting lawsuits and disputes than the
way presented in that draft.

I challenge anyone to come up with a better way to manage the name space.

The IAHC draft doesn't (heck, it creates a whole industry of lawyers
ready to dispute new registrations).


Regards,

Simon

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