>I could not agree more -- and indeed already have, several times. However, if
>you can't solve it all at once, you solve it piece by piece. Rather than
>having
>international alphabet soups, the expertise of which is quite unproven, I
>suggest
>that starting out with at least ONE mechanism (other than the courts) that has
>some credibility at least gives you a working model from which a corresponding
>international mechanism can grow. Example: the Patent Cooperation Treaty
>works just fine, having been constructed out of the patent systems of the
>signatory countries.
Agreed, so long as the arbitration mechanism is not mandatory (meaning the
courts are always available) and several alternatives are available
eventually if not immediately.
We definitely do have to get out of the trap of assuming that domain names,
by definition, are trademarks and are automatically commercial. Much of
the Internet is still for communication purposes and not for e-commerce or
other commercial uses. These non commercial uses will continue and grow,
right along with e-commerce and commercial use. Those domain names must be
protected as well.
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