Jurisdiction - was Re: 60 day waiting period

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> 
> At 11:52 AM 01/13/97 -0500, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
> 
> >My proposal is to stay out of it and let the 180-odd national court
> >systems decide.  One that you yourself used to espouse Carl.
> 
> I don't know why you say "used to espouse".  I made my recommendations many
> months ago (you can read them at <http://www.patents.com/nsi/iip.sht>) and
> they still stand.
> 

I just read your recommendations.  It is well written and informative. 
Out of all of it, though, the only thing I see applicable to this
discussion has to do with jurisdiction.  The CORE will be using
interpleader, no doubt, and the question comes up, what court will be
listened to.

It isn't immediately obvious.  You see, the registries will be located
throughout the world, so presumably, if you sued a registry, you would
sue in the registries home country, this isn't desirable to the net at
large.  What is probably desirable is to have the CORE be the org
sued(should language in the draft indicate this, or does it already?) 
The problem with suing the CORE is where is the CORE located?  Has
anyone given this any thought.

Vince Wolodkin