> > For any "constituency" there is an opposite.
>
> This is a metaphysical claim. It has no relation to reality. The
> reality is that political relationships are very much more
> complicated.
Nonesense. The DNSO has presumed and empowered constituencies for
trademark owners yet ignorred the fact that there are those who use names
in those vast areas in which trademarks do not run.
The DNSO has similarly presumed and empowered constituncies for registries
and ignorred the fact that there are those who use the service of those
registries and whose interests are often in opposition to the registries.
What has happened is that focused interest groups have demonstrated the
fact that focused, small groups tend to win over less focused interests.
And many people have simply not turned on their brains to realize that by
allowing such easy definitions to prevail that they are simply handing
core parts of the Internet over to self-interested businesses.
--karl--
