In a few days, I'll be purging my current mail folders again and archiving their contents locally. I've made a few observations : Total messages currently marked for archive (most from January, some december messages that started new threads) from [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (minus those noted below) is approximately 4000 total. On top of that is my filter file were I seperate messages from two particular individuals I exclude from the above folders (this is my killfile folder, most times I just make all messages read, or just simply skim through them). This folder has a little under 1000 messages (expect it to top 1000 in the next couple days, and you can just speculate about who these two are). Many of the messages in both the totals above are multiple copies of one message cross posted to all or most of the lists(as is this one). Also missing are messages from when [EMAIL PROTECTED] removed a number of subscribers (myself included) during their technical problems. We have seen some significant happenings this month. We have also seen what I consider to be some disturbing happenings. I am particularly concerned about the role Trademark interests are now trying to play in this process. Trademark is a very small part of what is dealt with in the overall issue of commerce. Trademarks and domain names are a very small part of the domain name pool. However, under the DNSO.org and Trademark Interest proposals they would be placed in their own constituency and as such have a much stronger say than the overall business community, or the overall domain name holder community, combined, since they would most likely place themselves in each of these groups also. They have also structured their constituency plans in such a way as to make it difficult for others besides them to fit into more than on constituency. This is a most serious issue. The trademark interests have failed in the past to get new laws enacted to strengthen their position with regards to trademark laws, and are now trying to influence the DNSO.org sponsors in such a way to give TM interests the ability to get these rules adopted at the DNSO level, which they were unable to do legislatively. It has also been said that we HAVE to accomodate them because they have the influence to stop this process. I challenge this way of thinking, and see this issues as one of the most serious unresolved issues in the DNSO process as we move into February. I am not saying Trademark holders should be excluded from the process, far from it. But they should represent themselves in the general membership or (if we MUST have constituency based membership) in the broader General Business class of membership. They would then be represented more in line with their proportion in the commerce areas. This presents no disadvantage to them, unless you consider not giving them a massive controlling interest a disadvantage. I have failed to see ANY argument that successfully addresses this point, and would be really interested in seeing some facts about this. As always, it will be interesting to see what the next month brings..... ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28-Jan-99 Time: 13:21:26 ---------------------------------- __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
