Joe and all,
Of course you are correct Joe. I think that we all know that Kent
has a special interest here in making this obviously incorrect statement.
What is amazing to me anyway is that others actually believe this
dribble...
!Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> > 1) There are millions of names in .com. Even with 50000 names marked out,
> > adding 6 new gTLDs is an *enormous* expansion of the domain space.
>
> complete nonsense here. the root file can be as big as dot.com, that's a
> fact, if that was not a fact dot.com would not work. Last time I looked
> dot.com was 900 megs in size, which means the root can be 900 megs in
> size. at this time the root is only some 200K - so spare us the
> misinformation kent.
>
> regards
> joe
>
> >
> > 2) Far more important than the particular number is the set of criteria
> > for admission in the list. If there are indeed 50000 legitimate "famous
> > marks" by some defensible definition, then 50000 is a true measure of
> > the scope of the problem. (The IAHC challenge panel guidelines had
> > objective criteria for famous marks -- "formally registered as a mark in
> > more than 75 countries", for example.)
> >
> > 3) The list, as I understand it, is for the dominant (except in wg-c)
> > definition of "gTLD"s -- that is, TLDs that allow open registration to
> > all, without any enforced policies on registration. TLDs that had real
> > charters would be in a different category -- for example, a TLD (say,
> > nom) that had a registration requirement that the SLD name had to be a
> > legal name for the individual registering the SLD could be exempt from
> > the exclusion list (so macdonald.nom could really go to someone name
> > macdonald).
> >
> >
> > > I think this is a practical and serious issue. How big would
> > > the list be? There is also an issue of the type of protection Pesi
> > > would get. Would Pesi get protection from popesitdown.com or
> > > pesivcoke.comparison?
> >
> > You mean "pepsi", I believe. As far as I know, the exclusion list is
> > for exact string matches.
> >
> > > And, if the world wants to set a global trademark policy, why doesn't
> > > the world do this through its existing international institutions like
> > > WIPO or WTO? Why does ICANN, hardly a representative or accountable
> > > group, become a policy maker in this area?
> >
> > Because domain names bring the problem to the surface, and there is no
> > other body in the correct place to do anything in anything like the
> > "internet" time scale.
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
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> >
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