Re: [IFWP] Domain name trademark policy (was: NSI has scrapped its domain name trademark policy??

1999-04-08 Thread Jeff Williams
Kerry and all, Kerry Miller wrote: > Jeff and all, > > > > Neither I, nor any other partisan of the gtld-mou, believes > > > that the family name "Disney" or "MacDonald" should be kept > > > off the 'net because of a clash with a trademark. That's why the > > > gtld-mou called for the creation

Re: [IFWP] Re:

1999-04-08 Thread Bill Lovell
At 05:12 PM 4/8/99 -0400, you wrote: >Richard J. Sexton a écrit: > >> I read that: >> >> ** The term "Internet" is still the subject of a proceeding at the >> ** Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. >> ** Therefore, this term should not be used in identifying any >> ** goods or services connecte

Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: What the ??? ICANN Appoints Independent Revie w Advisory Committee

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Ivan Pope a écrit: > > At the risk of being pedantic, it seems that ICANN is acting in the best > bureaucratic tradition: > they have set up a committee to report to the board on the setting up of a > review panel. Did you get that? Are we getting anywhere? What we are witnessing, in its initia

Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: What the ??? ICANN Appoints Independent Review Advisory Committee

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Jorge Plano a écrit: > > Perhaps if you read again the Bylaws you can find what is the meaning of this > Committee. So, Mr. Plano, now that you've been exalted into the position of serving on a ICANN committee, you've become a spokesman and publicity agent for ICANN? Is Don Heath coaching you on

[IFWP] Domain name trademark policy (was: NSI has scrapped its domain name trademark policy??

1999-04-08 Thread Kerry Miller
Jeff and all, > > Neither I, nor any other partisan of the gtld-mou, believes > > that the family name "Disney" or "MacDonald" should be kept > > off the 'net because of a clash with a trademark. That's why the > > gtld-mou called for the creation of the .nom top level domain, and > > why, for

[IFWP] Re:

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Richard J. Sexton a écrit: > I read that: > > ** The term "Internet" is still the subject of a proceeding at the > ** Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. > ** Therefore, this term should not be used in identifying any > ** goods or services connected with a > ** global computer information ne

Re: [IFWP] A Presidential Issue?

1999-04-08 Thread Ronda Hauben
Jay Fenello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Today, I happened to catch Presidential Candidate >Pat Buchanan on CSPAN. He was giving a talk on US >China Relations to the Commonwealth Club of California. >At one point in the questioning, Pat described how the >world had changed from the 80's, how the

Re: [IFWP] A Presidential Issue?

1999-04-08 Thread Jeff Williams
Jay and all, Uh Jay I believe Al Gore has already pretty much assured that Internet related issues WILL be an issue in the 2000 campaign Jay Fenello wrote: > Today, I happened to catch Presidential Candidate > Pat Buchanan on CSPAN. He was giving a talk on US > China Relations to the Com

[IFWP] Non-English Net Users Growing Fast

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Sondow
___ AIM's Research Update Service ___ ___ April 7, 1999 ___ Non-English Net Users Growing Fast A recent study by Global Reach suggests that non-English speaking people are joining the online world faster than English speakers. Since 1995, non-English speaking users have grown from 10% (4-5 mill

[IFWP] [Fwd: New version of the minutes]

1999-04-08 Thread Jeff Williams
All, Some of this may be of some interest to some of you. Most especially the PSO info. 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 E

[IFWP] A Presidential Issue?

1999-04-08 Thread Jay Fenello
Today, I happened to catch Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan on CSPAN. He was giving a talk on US China Relations to the Commonwealth Club of California. At one point in the questioning, Pat described how the world had changed from the 80's, how the Conservative movement related to the Libert

RE: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: What the ??? ICANN Appoints Independent Review Advisory Committee

1999-04-08 Thread Marsh, Miles (Gene)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge, No one is denying the necessity for this function to be present, or for the IRAC to be created. The problem is the methods by which the members were selected. There was no open review process of potential candidates. The ICANN Board has giv

Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: What the ??? ICANN Appoints Independent Revie w Advisory Committee

1999-04-08 Thread William X. Walsh
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:38:27 +0100 , you wrote: >At the risk of being pedantic, it seems that ICANN is acting in the best >bureaucratic tradition: >they have set up a committee to report to the board on the setting up of a >review panel. Did you get that? Are we getting anywhere? What's NSI's stoc

RE: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: What the ??? ICANN Appoints Independent Review Advisory Committee

1999-04-08 Thread Ivan Pope
At the risk of being pedantic, it seems that ICANN is acting in the best bureaucratic tradition: they have set up a committee to report to the board on the setting up of a review panel. Did you get that? Are we getting anywhere? What's NSI's stock price today? Ivan > -Original Message- >

[IFWP] Re: Geography [was Re: a cut at a icann-based pso]

1999-04-08 Thread Jeff Williams
Eric and all, Interesting comments indeed. Let's review them.. (See below your comments) Eric Brunner wrote: > At 06:32 PM 4/7/99 -0400, Diane Cabell wrote: > >One of the problems is the Board-wide cap in Article V Section 6 of the ICANN > >bylaws. No more than half of the Board (after the