[IFWP] Re: IOD lawsuit

[Jeff Williams]

Ken and all,   It appears that CORE and Ken Stubbs are yet again attempting to put the best face on a situation that they know very well is other than what Ken Stubbs has stated here.  For those who have an extreme interest in this ongoing saga between CORE and IODesign, it would be very useful to do a thorough review of E-Mail archives of the gtld-discuss and this list (Domain Policy) as well as some review of the IFWP list as well.   It was reported sometime back that CORE was in some legal difficulty with the Swiss government in regards to certain questionable financial arrangements with their members and the potential missapprotiation and allocation of the membership fees it had charged its members.   Mr. Stubbs is also quite renowned for is misleading spin doctoring in many if not all of this comments to public mailing lists and often in the Internet press as well.  This is well documented and also fairly broadly known as well.  He has engaged in concerted effort alone with Mike Roberts to discredit improperly and in the dirtiest manner possible, of IODesign and Chris Ambler, or anyone that takes a viewpoint that Shared TLD's or Shared gTLD's should or could be part of the recognized expansion of the DNS name space. As such, and to a great degree ICANN has taken this view, despite a huge known consensus in opposition to CORE's and now ICANN's view here. Ken Stubbs wrote:  I was asked to provide a statement in response to a press release published on behalf of IODesign by Jay Fennello who appears to be handling press-relations for their group. Due to the pending litigation instituted by IO Design, CORE is limited in respect of the comments it can make regarding the trademark application filed for .WEB.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> We can confirm that, earlier this year, CORE filed intent-to-use service mark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with respect to certain proposed top-level domain designations, including .WEB.CORE, a Swiss non-profit association, has promoted the establishment of such new gTLDs since its inception, with the stated intent of providing registry services on a non-profit basis for second level domains under such new gTLDs.CORE�s purpose in filing the service mark applications was to demonstrate its continued interest in operating registries on a non-profit basis for new gTLDs. Ken Stubbschairman - Internet Council of Registrars [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) 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