Roeland wrote:
> The first question I have is whether we want to restrict this to the
> IFWP
> list, or one of the other lists? IMHO, the IFWP list seems to be neutral
> ground. Posting to all four lists is a PITA for everyone.
Could we think of it as a tree, with subsections branching into other
lists?
> Second is more of a request, please keep this subject line intact.
What about a 'branched' subject line then?
> The rules are;
...
> 4) The evidence of completion is when we can agree to a set of
> principles that will let us merge this part of the drafts DNSO into
> a single view that all of us can live with.
>
5) To that end, the more appropriately material is quoted the easier it is to
see what is being agreed to.
> At 03:28 PM 2/9/99 -0800, Einar Stefferud wrote:
>
> >Now, as for the structural aspects of the TM/DNS conflict, the main
> >problem as I see it is that there are not enough TLDs to afford all TM
> >owners of the same name to also have unique DNS names with differnet
> >TLD "qualifiers" which serve the same role in DNS that commercial
> >categories serve in "commerce" to allow the ame name to by used
> >without confusion.
> >
> >A major problem seems to be that many people do not see the TLD name
> >as serving this role of differentiation among uses of the same TM
> >name.
> >
In fact, it seems as tho the DN tree is being inverted, as if (e.g.)
NMA.COM and NMA.ORG are branches of some NMA root!
> Why to TM attorney's always ignore the administrative portion of the
> name
> (the TLD), in their suits? Is there some issue with trademark law that
> requires them to do this? If there is no such requirement then why do
> it?
> What is to be gained?
What could be gained by that inversion is clear to me, at least.
But it also leads me to wonder if we have been too literal in
construing the *third level namespace. Is there a functional problem
if www.nma.com was one ownership, and xxx.nma.com was
another? (Each one of course could register whatever space they
needed for their own network, but really, would such a list be bigger
than *two* characters could deal with?)
kerry
