Agreed.
At 09:41 AM 2/22/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>On 22-Feb-99 William X. Walsh wrote:
>>
>> On 22-Feb-99 Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
>> > I don't think TM owners are asking that the DNS be re-engineered. They
>> > are asking that if gTLDs are to be added (which I don't think should be
>> > classified as re-engineering) that those who seek to own and operate
these
>> > new ventures be respectful of other people's pre-existing rights. These
>> > rights have been created and are protected under national trademark and
>> > unfair competition laws and various international treaties. Mueller
made
>> > the ipse dixit claim that such rights don't exist. He may not like that
>> > they exist and he is entitled to his opinion, although he masquerades
his
>> > personal opinions as pronouncements on the law. He is wrong about the
>> > law.
>>
>> NO ONE is saying their rights should not be recognized.
>>
>> MY honoring the rulings of courts in these matters a registry is doing
their
>> responsibility to both parties by honoring both of their rights.
>
>That should of said BY honoring.......guess I need more caffeine this
morning.
>
>>
>> > So the topic at issue here is whether the domain name registration
system
>> > should be expanded without recognition of the legal rights of others
- or
>> > perhaps there can be some reasonable compromise.
>>
>> Of course it can be expanded with recognition of the legal rights of
others,
>> by honoring court rulings.
>>
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>> E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: 22-Feb-99
>> Time: 09:27:11
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>> "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
>> of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
>> - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
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>E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 22-Feb-99
>Time: 09:36:33
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>"We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
>of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
>- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
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