Karl and all,
Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > ... 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.
How true. The number of cases abounds.
>
>
> 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.
As was enumerated in the comments sent directly to the ICANN
Interim board that constituencies were divisive, we now have seen one
such example of the divisiveness in the very use of exclusion of
many parties to their own "Constituency".
And this was done directly against the VAST number of stakeholders
desires by edict of the ICANN INterim Board. In addition such a
decision is in violation of the White Paper and their own Bylaws.
>
>
> The creation of these constituencies is nothing less than a flat out
> contravention of the notions espoused in the white paper.
How true!
>
>
> --karl--
Regards,
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Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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