Re: IAHC Proposal (Attacks Thereon)

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Leo,

  I cuoldn't agree more with this.  It would be nice if Derrell or
Joe Kelsey would read it closer.  But possible due to some of their
obvious defeciancies, thye probly CAN'T. :)

Leo Smith wrote:
> 
> Sally...At the risk of being repetitive...If out of 800,000 .com URL
> users, only 400 have any involvement in a dispute resolution involving
> trademark controversy (either by NSI's vehicle or by court
> proceedings), then, accepting all you say to be true, the question
> still comes down to this:
> Are the benefits that MAY be realized by 400 trademark holders and 400
> URL holders significant enough to warrant imposing a major
> inconvenience and hassle on the 799,600 other URL users whose URLs
> will never be involved in a trademark dispute?
> We can save 30,000 lives a year in the US by imposing a 20MPH speed
> limit on our highways...but we, as a society elect not to take
> advantage of that option. Even though the benefits of saving 30,000
> lives are enormous, we determine as a society that to save those
> 30,000 lives by lowering the speed to 20MPH is too costly to our
> economy and to our personal need to get to where we want to go
> quickly...
> 
> Speed is at play here as well. It is quite consistant to agree with
> you, on one hand, that some of the benefits you predict may come true
> under a 60 day delay, and at the same time reject ANY delay at all,
> simply because the theoretical benefits of the 60 day wait to the 400
> URL users who actually have encountered a need for the benefit far
> outweigh the costs imposed on the other 799,600 users who, with zero
> wait time, will never in their life encounter a trademark conflict
> over the use of their URL.
> If a trademark rights holder has a problem with a URL, take all legal
> action necessary against the alleged infringer. Period.
> 

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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