Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Carl Oppedahl allegedly said:
> 
[snip]
> 
> How is a publication for 60 days any different from a publication forever,
> which is what we now have?  Right now, with Whois, the publication happens
> for 60 days and happens forever.

We've been over that.  It's different because it is in a designate place 
for a designated purpose -- namely publicizing new domain names.  

You are essentially defining "published forever" as completely 
equivalent to "published".  Indeed, that is a common meaning -- once 
*anything* has been published, in any form, it has been "published 
forever".  Used in this way it is a strictly binary characteristic -- 
either something has been published, or it hasn't.  Period.

However, *all* forms of legal publishing for a period use the term in
a different way.  They mean something like "brought continuously 
before the publics attention in a publication medium designated for 
the legal purpose we have in mind."  Posting new domain names in a 
web site expressly designated for the purpose for 60 days exactly 
fits in with the common legal use of the term.  Whether or not the 
name is active in DNS is completely orthogonal.

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