Re: 60 day period

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

Sally Abel wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote....

>From her posting I can deduce the following points:

1)  INTA knows absolutely nothing about business on the internet.
2)  The waiting period is useless since by her own words courts already
recognize that someone being infringed upon must act relatively quickly.
3)  The only argument given for non-use was so that the domain applicant
wouldn't become attached to the domain name.

Wow!  I am so happy a representative of INTA is on the IAHC.  In
retrospect this was probably a mistake(ditto for WIPO) since as Mr Higgs
points out RFC 1591 explicitly says that registries WILL NOT be involved
in trademark issues but will instead just provide contact info to both
parties.

And as I have siad before, ANY attempt to - through registry policy -
alleviate perceived problems in regard to points of law will severely
backfire, one only needs to look as far as NSI to know this is so. 
Scrap everything in the draft that speaks to trademarks.  Insert the RFC
1591 language and create a special .tm or whatever top-level domain and
let INTA be the steward if you want.

Vince Wolodkin