[ifwp] Re: How not to define membership classes

[Karl Auerbach]

> > During the IAHC days there wasn't much argument over whether to add new
> > TLDs, but rather how many.  It is the pressure from the various
> > trade/service mark folks which has changed that situation to the current
> > one of immobility (and vast financial value to NSI.)
> > 
> > So, I would agree that the TM interests have stopped there being any new
> > TLDs.
> 
> While many in the trademark community have actively resisted the
> addition of new gTLDs, and privately lobbied against them, it is
> simply not true that it was trademark interests that stopped the
> implementation of the gTLD-MoU.  That was the USG.

The idea didn't just hit them like a bolt out of the DC sky.

The US did it because of the loud noises emitted by the trade/service mark
folks.

                        --karl--




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