Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Einar Stefferud <Stef@nma.com>]

It seems perhaps too obvious to me that the trademark problem is
trivially solved by setting up a new tmTLD for use by TradeMark
Offices, which can use them to register trademarks as strings in their
trunk of the DNS tree.

Or, better yet, each country with an ISO3166 TLD can set it up in
their own country, and automatically define the DNS entry for every
Trademark and offer to support name service for it for a small fee
that is included in the Trademark fee, or charged separately.

I see no reason to warp the entire DNS name system just to fix the
fact that Trademarks are only unique within arbitrarily selected
categories.  The .TM.US domain thus can use 3LDs for categories, and
trademarks as 4LD names.

And then our beloved TM folk can go away and leave us alone!  

Now, this is how complexity simply organizes itself without central
authorities.  The TM Industry has the answer entirely within its own
grasp as I write.  

So why to they want to take control of the whole DNS?  
I remain totally mystified by what I am reading here...\Stef

>From davidks message Fri, 27 Dec 1996 11:12:53 -0800 (PST):
}
}All discussions on this list have clearly shown that the trademark system
}is not suitable for the DNS and a global Internet. There is no solution
}that doesn't run into concerns of trademark owners. Given this, I don't
}think it is reasonable to try to solve trademark issues in the
}DNS/Internet.
}
}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.
}
}David K.
}---