At 08:54 PM 2/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>On 02-Feb-99 Dave Crocker wrote:
>> At 01:48 PM 2/1/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>provided in response to the question "how many times did NSI
>>>>invoke its Domain Name Dispute Policy?"
>>
>>
>> So 800 or more times a year, NSI goes beyond the rule of established law
>> and extends trademark privileges farther than is done is most courts.
>>
>> It remains an unfortunate oddity that NSI does not, instead, allow
>> contestants to resolve the matter themselves, either on their own or
>> through legitimate courts, producing a directive for NSI rather than having
>> NSI assert itself as a decision-making entity.
>>
>
>It is also unfortunate that the trademark interests are not willing to follow
>the same course.
>
>
Oh, golly. Now I wonder. Could it have been some cabal of trademark owners
-- or the marketing departments thereof, that talked NSI into dumping RFC 1591,
which did precisely what Mr. Crocker is seeking?
Bill Lovell
