Re: 60 day waiting period

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 11:02 PM 01/12/97 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
>> Go get declaratory statements from all 180-odd court national court systems
>> which supposedly would "pay heed" to this.
>> 
>> With all due respect, Carl, you're blowing smoke.  You have absolutely no
>> basis for your position on this other than your beliefs.  Which, when you
>> consider disrupting the business activities of *hundreds of thousands of
>> firms*, isn't enough .
>
>I think the point Karl is getting at here is that in most of the world,
>courts do not set case-law precedents but merely apply the Civil Code as
>written by the country's legislators. Thus if the 60-day period is not
>written into the laws, it doesn't have any effect.
>
>I'm not sure if any countries, other than former British colonies, would
>have a system that recognizes case-law precedents.

Well, I guess you know more about the courts of the world than I do.  In
that case, please favor the IAHC and the members of the Internet community
with your knowledge.  How, given what you have said about the courts of the
world, do you propose to deal with the problem of insufficient URL and
domain name stability due to challenges by covetous trademark owners?