Re: Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué (fwd)

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
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Re: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
Joe Sims wrote: > As to your "slippery slope" argument, it is a legitimate concern, but I > hope (and think) that we have not started down it here. > There is in fact a principled distinction between having a domain-name > dispute resolution policy and content > censorship. Assignment of unique

Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué (fwd)In-Reply-To: <86256799.00472CA0.00@Internet-504.interliant.com>

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
>[As it happens, I don't see why a uniform policy on commercial disputes >involving trademarks is all that urgent, nor part of the technical >functions of ICANN. It's a neccessity because technically, without this, there would not be buy-in from the immesnly powerful trademark lobby. Look at th

Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué (fwd)

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
I am delighted that you believe that the press communique is entirely consistent with the board resolutions. I hope everyone else is of that view as well. I was concerned about this paragraph: "The Initial Board noted that a uniform dispute settlement mechanism was a necessary element of a comp

Re: Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué (fwd)

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Joe Sims wrote: > First, contrary to the assertion in your posting, the Board did not > endorse a "expand-WIPO-arbitration strategy" in its Berlin resolution. > WIPO recommended > arbitration only for disputes involving abusive registrations. What the > Board resolution endo

Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué (fwd)

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous
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Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-07 Thread Jay Fenello
At 09:26 AM 6/7/99 , Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: >One enormous danger of this expand-WIPO-arbitration strategy endorsed in >the ICANN Press communique is that there will not be judicial review in >the US (and a few other countries), while there will be in much of the >rest of t

Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-07 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
One enormous danger of this expand-WIPO-arbitration strategy endorsed in the ICANN Press communique is that there will not be judicial review in the US (and a few other countries), while there will be in much of the rest of the world. The result will be to put US registrants (and others similarly

Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-07 Thread Michael Sondow
Esther Dyson a écrit: > Basically, the sense of the board is that this policy, whatever it > eventually involves, should probably address all (nonpolitical) disputes > over names, not just the "abusive" registrations that WIPO focuses on. > ("all commercial disputes linked" to domain name regis

Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-07 Thread Jeff Williams
Esther and all, This is all well and fine, however we have a justice system to address these sort of situations. To attempt to impose regulations that are extraneous to that justice system or other justice systems outside the US for example, and in particular the WIPO RFC-3 "Final Report" reco

Re: Fwd: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-07 Thread Esther Dyson
My server has been rejecting mail lately (a Freudian slip perhaps!), so I missed this till now. Basically, the sense of the board is that this policy, whatever it eventually involves, should probably address all (nonpolitical) disputes over names, not just the "abusive" registrations that WIP

Re: [IFWP] Re: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-05 Thread Jeff Williams
Gordon and all, I would have to agree with Gordon here. ICANN and in specific Mike Roberts, Esther Dyson, and Joe Simms have not been conducting themselves in the best interest of the stakeholder community as a whole in as much as remaining neutral in their attitude towards NSI. If I were in

Re: [IFWP] Re: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-05 Thread Gordon Cook
cook: when mike roberts instead of maintaining professional neutrality to NSI stand up and speaks in berlin of NSI as everyone's favorite monopoly and registrar criteria give ICANN power to disenfranchise NSI essentially at will, I'd say NSI has reason to be extremely careful Icann has bee

[IFWP] Re: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-04 Thread Kent Crispin
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 12:00:13AM -0400, Gordon Cook wrote: > with the hope that NSI will be stupid enough to sign their registrar > guidelines, they are trying to use NSI to construct a laboratory to be > used in luring the rest of us inside so that they can do to us whatever > they wish. i ha

Re: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-04 Thread Gordon Cook
with the hope that NSI will be stupid enough to sign their registrar guidelines, they are trying to use NSI to construct a laboratory to be used in luring the rest of us inside so that they can do to us whatever they wish. i have talked to four different people today and all four are of the emph

Re: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-04 Thread William X. Walsh
On Fri, 4 Jun 99 22:10:45 -0400, "Bret A. Fausett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm confused. > >I just re-read the ICANN Press Communiqué from Berlin. > >In the press release (written by the PR firm, not ICANN) is this sentence: > > The Initial Board noted that a uniform dispute settlement >

Re: [IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-04 Thread Michael Sondow
Bret A. Fausett a écrit: > In the press release (written by the PR firm, not ICANN) is this sentence: > > The Initial Board noted that a uniform dispute settlement > mechanism was a necessary element of a competitive > registrar system. The Initial Board noted that the > scope of this po

[IFWP] Press Communiqué

1999-06-04 Thread Bret A. Fausett
I'm confused. I just re-read the ICANN Press Communiqué from Berlin. In the press release (written by the PR firm, not ICANN) is this sentence: The Initial Board noted that a uniform dispute settlement mechanism was a necessary element of a competitive registrar system. The Initial Boa