[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-15 Thread Daniel Pare
Greg Skinner wrote: > My fault. I went back in the archives and checked. Joe Sims and > Larry Landweber were also mentioned. See the "trust building > exercise" thread and some other threads it spun off. > Are the archives for this list now open again, or are you referring to you own archive

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-13 Thread jeff Williams
Richard and all, Richard is correct here. And form that time forward Mike Roberts is the only other individual that has "Come Clean" on this score to my knowledge. And he was very shaky at that in his explanation at the November 14th Boston meeting. To this day, we do not have a full open

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-13 Thread jeff Williams
Greg and all, Greg Skinner wrote: > "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Esther Dysan was the first person to explain who contacted her > >in a teleconferance with ORSC. She said she was apprached > >by Ira and Roger Cochetti of IBM. > > My fault. I went back in the archives and

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-12 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 05:26 PM 1/12/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote: >"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Esther Dysan was the first person to explain who contacted her >>in a teleconferance with ORSC. She said she was apprached >>by Ira and Roger Cochetti of IBM. > >My fault. I went back in the archiv

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-12 Thread Greg Skinner
"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Esther Dysan was the first person to explain who contacted her >in a teleconferance with ORSC. She said she was apprached >by Ira and Roger Cochetti of IBM. My fault. I went back in the archives and checked. Joe Sims and Larry Landweber were als

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-12 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 01:15 PM 1/12/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote: >Was ICANN selected by a secret process? From what I recall reading >some time back, several ICANN interim board members indicated they >were contacted by either Mike Roberts or Jon Postel and asked to >serve. Esther Dysan was the first person to ex

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-12 Thread Greg Skinner
Jim Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Greg Skinner wrote: >> But the fighting existed even back in the IAHC days. >Not the fighting over ICANN. The point I was trying to make is that you can subsitute IAHC or Jon Postel for ICANN and you get the same result. >ICANN is su

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-12 Thread Jim Dixon
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Greg Skinner wrote: > >Much of the fighting is over ICANN itself, and comes from the fact that > >ICANN operates in secret. A good deal of the fighting is in fact a > >form of speculation: people are arguing over different interpretations > >of ICANN's intent, or what today

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread jeff Williams
Greg and all, Greg Skinner wrote: > jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >For instance, it as a body or board, has allowed Mike Roberts (CEO) > >and Joe Simms (Legal Council) to unfairly and in less than an open > >manner, assist the DNSO.ORG in formulating the bylaws (Draft7) on a > >ma

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread David Schutt
, but the surrounding political structure does, too. David Schutt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard > J. Sexton > Sent: Sunday, January 10, 1999 8:45 PM > To: IFWP Discussion List > Subject: [ifwp] Re: rum

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Greg Skinner
jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For instance, it as a body or board, has allowed Mike Roberts (CEO) >and Joe Simms (Legal Council) to unfairly and in less than an open >manner, assist the DNSO.ORG in formulating the bylaws (Draft7) on a >mailing list that is CLOSED ( Participants List,

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Greg Skinner
Jim Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Much of the fighting is over ICANN itself, and comes from the fact that >ICANN operates in secret. A good deal of the fighting is in fact a >form of speculation: people are arguing over different interpretations >of ICANN's intent, or what today's version o

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Jim Dixon
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Greg Skinner wrote: > But this list is (supposedly) a forum for consensus, and yet people > fight. People were fighting before ICANN appeared on the scene. > ICANN has no control over the fighting, from what I can see. This is generous. Much of the fighting is over ICANN i

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Christopher Ambler
>Someone here once said that there are limits to how far you can string >people along, asking them to write proposals and submit comments, before >they lose faith that they are ever going to be listened to. The limits have already been reached. Christopher _

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Michael Sondow
Greg Skinner a écrit: > But this list is (supposedly) a forum for consensus, and yet people > fight. People were fighting before ICANN appeared on the scene. > ICANN has no control over the fighting, from what I can see. Sure there was fighting before. That's why the NewCo was needed: to provid

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread jeff Williams
Greg and all, Greg Skinner wrote: > Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Who's fault is all this? Again, Stef's probably right in pointing to > >ICANN. It's this competition for applications, this beauty contest > >that's been set up, where everyone thinks that if they can knock out >

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Michael Sondow
Gordon Cook a écrit: > > Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The NewCo, according to the White Paper, was supposed to be a > self-regulatory agency taking into account and representing all Internet > interests. > > Cook:.quote me that mike.chapter and verse where white paper

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Christopher Ambler
>But this list is (supposedly) a forum for consensus, and yet people >fight. People were fighting before ICANN appeared on the scene. >ICANN has no control over the fighting, from what I can see. Which goes towards my premis that the DNSO is a worthless entity with respect to the issues at hand,

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-11 Thread Greg Skinner
Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The NewCo, according to the White Paper, was supposed to be a >self-regulatory agency taking into account and representing all >Internet interests. Unfortunately, it isn't turning out that >way. ICANN itself is flawed, perhaps fatally, by the manner of i

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-10 Thread Gordon Cook
Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The NewCo, according to the White Paper, was supposed to be a self-regulatory agency taking into account and representing all Internet interests. Cook:.quote me that mike.chapter and verse where white paper says **all internet interests** **

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-10 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 04:25 PM 1/10/99 -0800, you wrote: >Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Who's fault is all this? Again, Stef's probably right in pointing to >>ICANN. It's this competition for applications, this beauty contest >>that's been set up, where everyone thinks that if they can knock out >>th

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-10 Thread Michael Sondow
Greg Skinner a écrit: > > Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Who's fault is all this? Again, Stef's probably right in pointing to > >ICANN. It's this competition for applications, this beauty contest > >that's been set up, where everyone thinks that if they can knock out > >their opp

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-10 Thread Greg Skinner
Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Who's fault is all this? Again, Stef's probably right in pointing to >ICANN. It's this competition for applications, this beauty contest >that's been set up, where everyone thinks that if they can knock out >their opponents they'll be declared the winner

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-08 Thread Milton Mueller
I think it is worth noting in this regard that the study has been praised by Carl Oppedahl and G. Gervaise Davis III, two of the most prominent *practitioners* of domain name-trademark law. Martin B. Schwimmer wrote: > "Prof. Mueller argues that name speculation should not be > counted, as “to c

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-08 Thread Karl Auerbach
The basic issue which is being ignorred is this: Under the guise of "protecting one's mark" those who hold trade/service marks are pushing beyond the boundaries of their rights. They do this by refusing to acknowldge that their own rights are limited and by refusing to acknowlede that there can

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-08 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
When Mueller writes: > >--"there is no challenge to the way the cases were classified. >Thus, it has been conceded that of the cases we know about, >the proportions are correct." and the critique contained, among other observations about his classification, the following: "Prof. Mueller argues t

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-08 Thread Einar Stefferud
Yes, the root cause of the problems remains a determination by certain powers that they are going to continue to play this as a zero-sum game, where if anyone else gets anything of value, it must have been taken from the winner, and the game is to capture all the value for the winner, no holds bar

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-08 Thread Michael Sondow
Einar Stefferud a écrit: > > I think that something deeper is going on here, and to the credit of > the DNSO.ORG, I think that the fault lies more with the International > Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and INTA, and perhaps ICANN's willingness to > work in closed meetings with INTA and others, includ

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-08 Thread Einar Stefferud
I think that something deeper is going on here, and to the credit of the DNSO.ORG, I think that the fault lies more with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and INTA, and perhaps ICANN's willingness to work in closed meetings with INTA and others, including DNSO.ORG. I believe that this v

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Craig Simon
Einar Stefferud wrote: > Either ignore such rumors and let them fester their way around the > community, or be happy that someone has the guts to surface them so > you can deny them straight away. I recall that during the December 97 IETF meeting DC someone in a hall BOF made a joke that the gov

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Milton Mueller
I stand corrected. What I meant was that the leadership of the dnso.org is attempting to do this. --MM Michael Sondow wrote: > Milton Mueller a écrit: > > > No, what's really going on here is that the dnso.org is > > attempting to cut a deal with the trademark interests. > > Milton- > > The othe

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Einar Stefferud
Hi Ken, and all -- DO NOT SHOOT THE MESSENGER! You (DNSO.ORG and ICANN) have a simple choice. Either ignore such rumors and let them fester their way around the community, or be happy that someone has the guts to surface them so you can deny them straight away. By becoming angry at the messeng

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Michael Sondow
Milton Mueller a écrit: > > I stand corrected. What I meant was that the leadership of the dnso.org > is attempting to do this. Thanks for modifying that comment. I feel badly about all these polemics going on to the utter obliviousness of most of the people who actually make up dnso.org. There

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Ken Stubbs
c: IFWP Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 3:18 PM Subject: [ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal >Hi Ken, and all -- > >DO NOT

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread jeff Williams
Roeland and all, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > At 12:09 PM 1/7/99 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote: > > >It is highly revealing that INTA and its new-found puppet, > >Kent Crispin, have chosen to attack the study on grounds of > >statistical methodology. I don't think this point has been > >emphasized

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Michael Sondow
Milton Mueller a écrit: > No, what's really going on here is that the dnso.org is > attempting to cut a deal with the trademark interests. Milton- The other assertions you made in your posting may be true; I have no information one way or the other. But that the dnso.org per se is cutting deals

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 12:09 PM 1/7/99 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote: >It is highly revealing that INTA and its new-found puppet, >Kent Crispin, have chosen to attack the study on grounds of >statistical methodology. I don't think this point has been >emphasized enough: the entire argument they have mounted >consists

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread jeff Williams
; From: Milton Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: IFWP Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 12:14 PM > Subject: [ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal > > > > >It is highly revealing that INTA and its

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Gordon Cook
>Gordon - > >As usual, there are some grains of truth here, of course: the trademark >interests have a lot of money. ^^ Cook: Yes indeed they do. One of the problems of ICANN, if I may be allowe

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread jeff Williams
Esther and all, Esther Dyson wrote: > Gordon - > > As usual, there are some grains of truth here, of course: the trademark > interests have a lot of money. > And we (the Initial Board of ICANN) hope that various groups will come > together into a consensus DNSO proposal. Oh yes with Joe Simms

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread jeff Williams
Ken and all, Well due to the obvious defensive nature of Ken's response to Gordon's post I am not leaning toward believing that Gordon's post was getting a little too close to the mark, and his sources were being very accurate and are creditable. Sorry Ken Ken Stubbs wrote: > Gordon & Al

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Ken Stubbs
P Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 12:14 PM Subject: [ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal > >It is highly revealing that INTA and its new-found puppet, >Kent Crispin, __

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Milton Mueller
I have been reading the WIPO RFC2 and also catching up with some of the political machinations surrounding the dnso.org meeting in Washington Jan 22. It's apparent now why Kent and other propagandists for the gTLD-MoU group are trying so hard to bury the results of my trademark study under a moun

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Esther Dyson
Gordon - As usual, there are some grains of truth here, of course: the trademark interests have a lot of money. And we (the Initial Board of ICANN) hope that various groups will come together into a consensus DNSO proposal. HOWEVER, you and I both know that there is no such thing as "a few I

[ifwp] Re: rumor: dnso.org and trademark community have cut a deal

1999-01-07 Thread Ken Stubbs
Gordon & All: LET ME BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR ABOUT THIS !!! THIS ANANYMOUS ALLEGATION IS A BLATANT LIE ! i also believe it is incredibly irresponsible and unprofessional for you Gordon to publish unfounded anonymous garbage like this to the lists. Ken Stubbs Chairman - Executive Committee Interne