Re: use the lukewarm farce...

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 5:18 PM -0800 12/31/96, Bill Manning wrote:

Why not let businesses do this for their specialized areas of industry?
The mistake that has been made so far is that the core business is
registration services. Why can't an existing business add domain name
registrations to it's existing core business? This could also solve the
directory service issues as they would be integrated into a final
business solution that just used DNS for information retrieval.

Your example for WIPO does this for trademarks, and I'm sure D & B
would be able to make use of this. I know of several other examples
that would as well. This type of example requires an exclusive registry
model.

> Re tm.ISO3166TLD  or why I don't like tm.int.
>
> Why not let an existant SLD that has some interest in IP (intellectual
> property) take on this task...
>
> For purposes of example only, I'd propose that, say WIPO take on
> the task as follows:
>
> 	offer to register DNS labels for marks registered in the
> 	madrid database under rules that it establishes.
>
> 	eg  IBM, as a multinational, has already taken the trouble
> 	to register its trademarks in a substantial portion of the
> 	nations that are signers of the madrid accords.  It has also
> 	taken the time/effort to register in those (few) nations that
> 	have not signed.
>
> 	They apply to WIPO for the DNS lable:  IBM.WIPO.INT.
>
> 	This has the cache of being recognised as a trademark label
> 	as seen by an accredited/recognised arbiter of trademarks.
>

Regards,

Simon

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