At 12:55 AM 2/15/99 -0500, Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>>
>> Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>>
>> > Martin makes a really good case for enforcing TLD charters. NSI
>> has allowed
>> > them to erode simply because the TLD space has been frozen. Do
>> you think
>> > enforced TLD charters would help in reducing this trademark pressure?
>>
>> Enforced by whom? Enforced how?
>>
>> --MM
>>
>
>Milton's point is the good one and the obvious one. Chartered TLDs only
>make sense if the charter can be enforced.
Yes, and that can happen in many ways. But, first we need to define what is
being enforced and the enforcement requirements. Both are open questions at
the moment. First, however, we haven't yet determined that chartered TLDs
would be effective in the first place. Without that, the rest is moot.
>They can only be enforced under
>the following circumstances:
>
>1. The chartering authority is recognized by all potential registrants as
>valid (e.g., Nominet is, without significant dispute, the authority for .UK)
>
>2. The charter is clear enough and narrow enough to make any sense (e.g.,
>.astronaut is for people who have been to outer space)
>
>It won't work for a broad commercial space (e.g. .COM), which is,
>unfortunately for chartered TLDs, where the vast majority of companies want
>to be, and which, unfortunately for chartered TLDs, already exists. The
>third corollary rule is, therefore:
>
>3. Consumer-driven e-commerce will only work in chartered TLDs if there are
>no unchartered TLDs. In other words, who the hell wants to be
>ford.automakers when you can be ford.com, especially when .automakers is one
>of thousands of chartered TLDs?
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