John and all, John Charles Broomfield wrote: > Christoper Ambler wrote: > > Kent argues against himself. > > Kent states that IOD's claim on .web is moot, since its US trademark > > is irrelevant if someone trademarks it in Germany. > > However, if someone in Germany trademarks .info (one of the CORE > > TLDs), .info is in the same boat. Yet Kent claims that they could be > > implemented immediately. > > You can't have it both ways. > > What if someone in Germany trademarks .com? What if Sun claims > > .com, (as in "we're the dot in dot com")? > > In whole, Kent's argument is just so much hot air. Again. > > That's exactly the problem. Once you give in to acknowledging entities other > than ICANN "owning" TLDs that get entered into the ICANN roots (ex-IANA > roots), you're doomed to put up with loads of bickering which ultimately > means instability for those TLDs. The only solution is for ICANN to keep > ownership of them. THere are some problems with your contention here Joihn. First, ICANN cannot legally OWN any TLD's as they are required to act in the PUBLIC interest and are essentially a PUBLIC TRUST. As such they ICANN can only Steuart TLD's not own them. Second as of January 16th the USPTO fundamentally disagrees with you with respect to TM classes as they relate to TLD's. Third, if ICANN should even be considered the owner of any TLD's, they will only be repeating the mistake that the USG made with NSI and .con, .net, .org.... In other words replacing one monopoly with another. > > That also means that no TLDs will be "given" to CORE either. Of course, any > TLDs added to the root will need a registry, and bar ICANN running it > themself, this would probably mean subcontracting the registry out. Having > it come up for bid regularly would seem to make sense for all those > involved. THere will be more than one Registry. There will have to be if there is to be real competition and meet the requirements of the White Paper. > > > Yours, John Broomfield. > > Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
