Arnold and all,
You indeed may have a good point here, to be sure. However I
look at WIPO as using the term "RFC" as simply borrowing
its familiarity in the internet industry as well as with the DOC
for purposes to add some value to "RFC-3" that may or may not
be present, depending on whom you might ask.
A Gehring wrote:
> One would think 'RFC', in minimum case, considered to be a common law
> mark; in the generous case, a famous mark. I smell infringement,
> confusion, and dilution. However, I don't smell any money in this one.
> Sounds like a good case for Ling (with a soft L) and the Ally McBeal
> bunch.
>
> Arnold Gehring
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>
> Saturday, February 20, 1999 7:10 PM, jeff Williams wrote:
>
> >Jim and all,
> >
> > It would seem that WIPO is doing this by design and familiarity to
> some
> >degree.
> >
> >Jim Gettys wrote:
> >
> >> To confuse us all....
> >>
> >> WIPO of all people, is now calling their DNS related documents
> "RFC"s.
> >>
> >> See: http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/rfc_3.html
> >>
> >> More than a bit ironic that they would swipe a common use name.
> >>
> >> This seems like a long term way for the world to end up even more
> >> confused than usual...
> >> - Jim Gettys
> >
> >Regards,
> >
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