[ifwp] Re: How not to define membership classes

[Kent Crispin]

On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:32:56PM -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> 
> > I asked Mueller to identify a TLD that TM interests alone have prevented
> > from being operational today and he did not reply.
> 
> During the IAHC days there wasn't much argument over whether to add new
> TLDs, but rather how many.  It is the pressure from the various
> trade/service mark folks which has changed that situation to the current
> one of immobility (and vast financial value to NSI.)
> 
> So, I would agree that the TM interests have stopped there being any new
> TLDs.

While many in the trademark community have actively resisted the
addition of new gTLDs, and privately lobbied against them, it is
simply not true that it was trademark interests that stopped the
implementation of the gTLD-MoU.  That was the USG.

-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair                         "Do good, and you'll be
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