I'm just tossing this to start things off. It addresses the fundamental
issue wrt trademarks. It is an insight that I think we can all agree with
at some level. Much of the disagreements between the two drafts are on
trademark issues. I feel that it is long past time to resolve them, or
admit that it is an intractable problem.
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>Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:35:20 -0500
>From: "vinton g. cerf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: spam issue revisited
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>To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Roeland,
>
>roughly what I said is that domain names must be unique (that is,
>only only target "host" can have a given domain name) but that
>trademarks, because of the way they are granted, can be applied
>to more than one entity (product, service). It is not uncommon
>that a telecommunications service company and a bus manufacturing
>company having the same trademarked corporate name - MCI in one
>case. Because of the ambiguity of trademarks, their use in
>domain names leads to a fundamental conflict because there can
>be only one entity that can use, e.g. mci.com, as a domain name.
>
>Vint
>
>At 01:01 AM 2/3/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Hello Vint,
>>
>>On the IFWP/DNSO/ORSC lists we've been discussing trademark issues related
>>to domain names. I watched you give a talk a few weeks ago, on CNN, and
>>during the Q&A portion you made a statement describing DNS and trademarks
>>being fundamentally incompatible. Do you recall those words and is there a
>>quotable reference for that statement?
>>
>>It is actually Mark Schwimmer and myself debating this. It also revolves
>>around the NSI trademark dispute policies.
>>
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>> KISS ... gotta love it!
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>
>See you at INET'99, San Jose, CA, June 22-25,1999
>http://www.isoc.org/inet99/
>
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Internet phone: hawk.lvrmr.mhsc.com
Personal web pages: http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer
Company web-site: http://www.mhsc.com
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