On 05-Feb-99 Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP, Executive Director wrote:
>
> Mikki Barry wrote:
>> > 6. TRADEMARK AND ANTI-COUNTERFEITING INTERESTS: entities including,
>> >but not limited to trademark owners and groups of owners, who are
>> >interested is the protection of trademarks or the effort to stop
>> >trademark counterfeiting and infringement.
>>
>> I suggest:
>>
>> 6. DOMAIN NAME AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTERESTS: entities who are
>> interested in the protection of domain names, and their interaction with
>> intellectual property rights.
>
> So that we can hit some of the other suggestions raised on the lists, how
> about this as an alternate wording (leaving out "domain name" as EVERYONE
> here is interested in domain names to some extent):
>
> 6. TRADEMARK AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTERESTS: entities who are
> interested in the protection of trademarks or intellectual property rights
> with respect to domain names.
>
> Thoughts?
This wording doesn't go far enough, in my opinion, to make it clear that
associations which are advocates of non-trademark holding domain name holders
qualify for inclusion here, which was the point of Mikki's comment, which I
fully endorse.
This permits non-trademark domain name holders to be respresented in more than
one constituency, like the trademark holders are now, and makes a much more
balanced and fair approach.
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04-Feb-99
Time: 22:44:27
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