Path: ns3.vrx.net!news2.best.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!remarQ73!supernews.com!remarQ.com!remarQ69!not-for-mail From: "Jay D Ribak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,ba.internet Subject: Re: WIPO's DNS comment period has been extended. Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:29:37 -0500 Organization: Posted via RemarQ, http://www.remarQ.com - Discussions start here! Lines: 42 Message-ID: <7coe2i$gmi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <7cmc1f$e44$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.247.199.201 X-Trace: 921680786 P0XQBQRYNC7C9D0F7C usenet58.supernews.com X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Xref: ns3.vrx.net comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:5496 These were some interesting links you provided. WIPO's RFC has raised many red flags for me. Some of the proposals are quite frightening--especially the loser pays arbitration costs part. I think there are some serious flaws in this plan, and in almost every other plan I have seen regarding DNS. A recent editorial in the Boston Globe proposed something along the lines of allowing more than one company to register the same domain name! The biggest flaw with ANY plan regarding DNS is the inherent misunderstanding of the purpose of DNS. DNS was not created with any kind of 'intellectual property' laws in mind. The only purpose of the domain name system was to allow people to use easily remembered names to access host computers, rather than having to memorize 32-bit IP addresses. Any kind of plan to provide intellectual property protection in the domain name system is inherently flawed because DNS was never designed to do that, and I don't see any way in which it can manipulated to do that. Approving WIPO's RFC 3 is only going to benefit the large companies and hurt the smaller companies and individuals. The internet was not intended to become the commercial morass that it is now. The internet is quickly being wrested away from the educational and research oriented environments that created it and handed to the uneducated and money grubbing masses. It truly is painful to watch... --Jay R. Reality is a point of view <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7cmc1f$e44$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >Speak up before the 19th! Domain name politics offered up an extension to the public comment period that was previously scheduled to end March 12th. Not that they are likely to listen, but given token gestures maybe constructive change isn't completely unlikely . . . -- Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Privacy on the net is still illegal. >
