Re: [IFWP] Re: list Re: Trademarks vs DNS

[Milton Mueller]

I may fall out of my chair, but I am not laughing. Bill Lovell is correct as far
as he goes: WIPO has no authority to create administrative law. But the problem is
ICANN, not WIPO per se. If ICANN, in its monopoly position, decides to adopt
WIPO's recommendations then it can exploit its monopoly position to force end
users to "contract" to those terms. I encourage all of you on the right side of
this issue to begin discussion of legal responses to such an evil alliance. ICANN
clearly intends to exploit its bottleneck power over DNS to make itself into a
global regulator. This may very well be the undoing of ICANN. But all indications
are that it does intend to do so.

--MM

Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

> WIPO creating administrative law...
>
> Even the judges in our little country would fall of their (nice)
> chairs laughing.
>
> el