Kent:
The issue before us is whether the business interests who want to use the DNS
to reduce the costs of policing trademarks and to strengthen trademark rights
in cyberspace should be granted a special membership class.
Is this one of those organizational suggestions that you, personally are at
odds with?
I hope so. In effect, your proposal, as it stands now, guarantees one group
that holds a particular policy position that its views and interests will be
hardwired into the organization. Whereas those who hold different views and who
interests clash with those of the trademark lobby are not made any such
guarantees.
I have yet to see anyone speak out coherently in favor of this. I have seen
many cogent arguments against it.
Please make it clear to us: are you simply cutting a political deal with INTA
in order to gain their support for making your DNSO "the" DNSO? Or can you
offer a coherent rationale for why the TM lobby--who are all businesses--are
being awarded a special membership class, an award that makes them "more equal"
than the individual domain name registrants, free speech advocates, and
noncommercial organizations whose rights have been repeatedly compromised by
the claims of corporate trademark holders?
This is a litmus test, and not only for me. You will remove your DNSO from
consideration by a significant number of people, and guarantee strenuous,
no-holds-barred opposition, unless this flaw is fixed.
--MM
Kent Crispin wrote:
> INTA put together a well thought out document that expresses their
> point of view, and made concrete organizational suggestions. Many of
> those organizational suggestions are at odds with what I personally
> consider to be political reality, and there are other features that I
> consider simply undesirable. I believe that my feelings are widely
> shared among DNSO.org participants. However, unlike ORSC, INTA has
> committed to working with DNSO.org to try to work on those
> differences. Since DNSO.org is in *fact* an open organization, we
> will of course negotiate with them, and see if something can be
> worked out.
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