Call signs have much of the same character as DNS names, in that they
may not be used in conflict by two different Electro Magnetic Signa
Transmitters. But, this has nothing to do with whether or not the
call sign registrant owns some intellectual property in connection
with the Call Sign string.
I keep going back to the advertsiing abstraction, where in the
registry (TCC, or DNS) owns a data base or a name server that behaves
like an advertising medium with space in the database zone file for
registered call sign strings or DNS zone file names.
So, there is room for a very clean contract between the registrant and
the registrar to the effect that for a fee, the registry will
"advertise" the registered name for the purpose of resolving the DNS
name to various data that are entered into the Registry database and
name serever for the registrant.
And this cointract does not require that the ownership rights to the
DNS name or the Radio CALL Sign be transferred to the registry, or o
anyone else for that matter.
Cheers...\Stef
>From your message Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:02:33 -0800:
}
}At 04:53 PM 3/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
}>Bill Lovell a =E9crit:
}>>
}>> ICANN is saying that
}>> as soon as I tell one of the registrars what that name is, and tell them
}>> I want to park it there, then the ownership of that domain name
}>> transmogrifies over to ICANN? Horse puckey.
}>
}>It's no more horse puckey, I'm afraid, than the restrictive
}>allocation of electromagnetic radiation in the earth's ionosphere.
}>You can invent a four-letter name for a transmitter of
}>electromagnetic radiation, but it's not much use until the regulator
}>grants you a piece of the high-frequency electromagnetic radiation
}>spectrum. Same soon for domain names.
}
}We're talking past each other. In your example, the regulator does
}NOT own "KOIN," "WPBS," etc., in spite of the fact that it "owns,"
}i.e., has control of, that spectral space. :-)
}
}Bill Lovell
}
}Bill Lovell
}
