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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> parminder [mailto:parminder@itforchange.net]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Neither, the rhetoric of attacking positions that make you feel good, which positions you know I never hold; like, your claim that I am on the side of '</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">people
who want to control and regulate the use of common word in order to ensure that they are used "properly" or "fairly""<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">When,</span> if I am saying anything at all, I am saying that common words should be allowed to be freely used by all, and not inappropriately pushed into private domains, which is a form of 'control'
over the use of those 'common words'. <span style="color:#1F497D"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] Nice rhetoric, but you are really ducking the argument. I honestly think you don’t understand the issue here, so let me try to explain more
carefully. A TLD string must be unique. Therefore it can only be assigned to one entity. That entity, the registrant of, let’s say, .WORD, decides what policies and practices determine what domains are registered under .WORD.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Tell me how you translate the idea that “common words (as domain names) should be allowed to be freely used by all” into a specific policy without violating the
uniqueness and exclusivity constraint? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">“Internet governance” is a generic term, and yet, <horrors> we at IGP have registered it under .org. And no, it cannot be freely used by all. It’s ours. It is
a domain administered by IGP, just as ‘IT’ and ‘change’ are common words that your organization administers as its private domain. Our registration of that generic term Internet governance has not stopped dozens of other organizations having a significant
profile in the area – Diplo, IGC, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">The only way to implement what you seem to be calling for is to set up a “word authority” that a) defines which words will be generic or common enough to be denied
registration by any private actor; b) imposes on these generic terms a specific set of policies regarding how registrations are made. And that is what I mean when I say – with complete sincerity – that you will end up advocating the control and regulation
of these common words. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Suppose your Word Authority dictates that .BOOK must follow the same open registration policy as now exists in .COM. Would that be “freely used by all?” No, even
then, “open to all” will simply mean that second level domains will be registered on a first-come, first-served basis..COM and .ORG are open to any registrant, but that simply means that if I register BOOK.COM or BOOK.ORG, I get to have this common word all
to myself at the second level. So to get what you seem to want, you would have to impose an even more stringent collective governance regime on how names are allocated and assigned within .BOOK.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">If that is not correct please explain, in specific, implementable terms, how you would do it differently.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even more ludicrous is your claim that "<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It is only a matter of time before you join the trademark lobby in their never ending quest</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">to ensure that politically approved true rights holders are allowed to use specific words in specific ways "</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] OK, I admit it, you will never “join the trademark lobby”, but only because you would never be caught dead with those corporate, commercial
types. My point however, is that your argument takes the exact same form and leads to the same kinds of policies: some central authority has to control who registers every name.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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