On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 10:08:40PM -0500, Bret A. Fausett wrote:
> Kent Crispin wrote:
> >A private attorney who didn't want to spend the money to be, or
> >didn't feel they fit, in one of the other constituencies -- eg, a 
> >trademark attorney that didn't want to be part of the TM 
> >constituency.  Concretely, maybe Bret Fausett.
> 
> Actually, I think the "trademark lawyers who don't want to be a
> part of the trademark constituency" should be their own constituency.
> I suggest that the new allocation on the Names Council be as follows:
> 
> 1.� Registries - 3 
> 2.� Registrars - 3 
> 3.� Infrastructure and connectivity providers - 3 
> 4.� Business and other organizations -3 
> 5.� Organizations primarily concerned with 
>     the interests of trademark owners - 3 
> 6.  Trademark lawyers who don't want to be 
>     a part of the trademark constituency - 3

How about 

  6.  Public interest and consumer advocacy - 3

That has already been proposed as a meaningful category.  I think it 
captures a larger group than Trademark lawyers who don't want to be 
part of the trademark constituency.


> 7.� At Large - 3
> 
> This puts this noble new category on the same footing as 
> the Registries. The previous 6 registry reps was just too many.

The registries, as might be expected, think that 6 is too few...


-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair                         "Do good, and you'll be
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