On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:57:01PM -0800, Bill Lovell wrote:
> >But it's certainly possible I may have missed something -- perhaps
> >you could list the things WIPO advocates that would break current TM
> >law?
> >
> 
> Well, predominantly their whole dispute resolution bit.  They don't have
> the authority to tell a U. S. Court who gets to keep a domain name and 
> who has to give it up.  Nor tell anyone else.

WIPO doesn't  tell anyone, the registry tells their client, the 
registrant, through a contract.

> Secondly, their "contractually mandated ADRs" would appear to be
> contracts of adhesion, like the NSI contract, if the execution of one
> is part of the price for getting a domain name. It's time for the advocates
> of "freedom" to jump onto this bandwagon, I should think.

Have at it.

-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair                         "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                               lonesome." -- Mark Twain

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