Re: Text Version of Draft AIP Documents

[Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP, Executive Director]

"William X. Walsh" wrote:
> > 6. TRADEMARK AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTERESTS: entities who are
> > interested in the protection of trademarks or intellectual property rights
> > with respect to domain names.
> 
> 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.

I guess I'm confused as to the purpose of the edits then. :(

Isn't the purpose of a constituency to define a group of similar interests?
The idea of THIS constituency was for those who are particularly interested
in how their trademarks and copyrights are going to be infringed upon. Its a
compromise to the trademark interests, as they ARE, in fact, powerful
interests with a lot of dollars to spend, and, as domains are part of one's
branding strategy (and therefore, can be said to infringe on trademarks and
copyrights if used in certain manners in certain countries), they were
getting their say here.

Would not those that advocate the NON-trademark holding domain name holders
fit into one or more of the OTHER constituencies? Or should we add one for
them in particular?

> 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.

I'm confused. How are the trademark holders in more than one constituency in
the model in this draft? The thought was that public interest groups, etc.,
would go into the non-profit/noncommercial constituency, but those with
trademark/intellectual property interests would have their constituency, as
well...

I guess my confusion is that I'm interpreting the idea that you are putting
forth as the equivalent of saying "you need to have some Democrats in the
Republican party" (sorry for those of you not U.S. based for that analogy,
but its the first one that comes to mind). Or am I missing something?

Andrew
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Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP
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