> ... I wager you $100 that 3 out of 4 TM owners favor free
> expression.
In other words you believe that folks the Nike sportswear company are
going to favor free expression of the word "nike" in all areas not
*STRICTLY* covered by their mark?
As has been widely demonstrated, the tendency of mark holders is to expand
the scope of thir coverage beyond what is given to them by law.
As such, mark holders are directly in opposition to the free
expressionists.
> There is no meaningful
> opposite to a registry constituency.
Balderdash. Registries sell domain name licenses, other folks buy them.
They are in direct opposition.
And the business constituency is in contrast to all those users of the net
who do so for non-business reasions -- education, churches, community
groups, fun, etc.
But all these opposing interests have been quietly eliminated from
effective participation in the DNSO by relegating all of them to a single
category in which they get but one vote against the combined weight of all
the "recognized" constituencies.
The creation of these constituencies is nothing less than a flat out
contravention of the notions espoused in the white paper.
--karl--
