Re: what the heck do i do now?

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Scott Weeks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:--- From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] As an, ahem, lawyer, I think what you do and how you do it matter a lot ... Pulling a plug after reasonable/lots of warnings (did you miss

Re: what the heck do i do now?

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
As an, ahem, lawyer, I think what you do and how you do it matter a lot here. And it would be prudent to talk to someone who understood your facts and situation before doing some of the things discussed in this thread. (I won't be more specific for fear of sounding like I'm giving legal

Re: ICANN at risk

2006-07-23 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
ah, but who timed what? On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Tony Finch wrote: The timing is interesting, given that DENIC and Nominet have recently come to an agreement of sorts with ICANN. Tony. -- http://www.icannwatch.org Personal Blog: http://www.discourse.net A. Michael Froomkin |Professor

Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder

2005-10-27 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
they get a back-door amendment to their contract, with no public process, that extends it and allows them to charge more in the future On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: * Chris Woodfield: Said the flowerpot: Oh no, not again...

Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

2005-07-05 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
I don't think the root zone is sufficiently original to be legally copyrightable. And we don't have database copyright in the US. Even if it were copyrightable, it is made avaiable for download hence there is good reason to assume an implied license. On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Peter Dambier

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Not so. The idea of an opposition party suggests the editors of ICW have some desire to be in control. Not at all. Further, we run a slash server. Most of the content is contributed. We don't have to go hunt for it. If ICANN ran decent discussion boards, it would put us out o business.

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Apologies for interrupting the rehash of the protocol wars, but, as a sometime teacher of trademark law, I must protest. Under US law at least, a trademark can only be sold as part of a larger transfer of assets structured to include the goodwill. Typical examples include: selling the

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Just curious. How much would it differ from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=icannwatch-20path=tg/detail/-/0262134128/qid%3D1041619276/sr%3D1-1 and http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf ? On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jonathan Slivko wrote: Maybe try these guys?

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-18 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
see http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/18/0334236mode=nested On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote: OK, I have obviously missed something here... I know that the courts dismissed the original complaint against ICANN, but what has happened since, and what is this about some

RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder)

2004-02-26 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
The lawsuit is not premature to the extent that 1. VRSN were told (however justly) to cease and desist Site Finder 1.0 or else face consequences. 2. VRSN were told they couldn't implement the Consolidate service without making other concessions [according to the complaint the service allowed

Re: Root Authority

2003-12-15 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
See Form and Substance in Cyberspace, 6 J. Small Emerging Bus. L. 93 (2002), available online http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/formandsubstance.pdf (especially pp. 119-122 (The role of the root server operators)) and more generally Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to