[governance] [govenance] The domain name racket goes on

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:44 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:16 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > When, for instance, Amazon gets the ownership of .book (as their
> exclusive
> > gtld not available to others) they can legitimately parade and publicize
> the
> > term '.book' as their own as they please, and with extended use, not only
> > will that make an extremely unfair association between the word 'book'
> and
> > amazon's business in books in people's mind, in time, they may also claim
> > trademark rights over the word, with some legitimate grounds behind
> them....
> > Therefore, not only ICANN's legal regime is much worse that governmental
> > regimes, it can and will be used to upstage the latter's good points..
>
>
> Perhaps ParminderCAN tell us which words should be allowed instead of
> which strings he objects to, and the rules under which they are
> allowed, and who should be eligible to be the Registry Operator for
> those strings.
>
> We could call it the Parminder Applicant Guidebook or PAGB for short.
>

*Ask WIPO <http://wipo.int>* the world reference for trademarks
  .
Louis
- - -

>
> >
> > What has become of ICANN is best represented in the email of resignation
> > (
> http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2014/09/msg00049.html
> > ) from the chair of one of  APNIC's policy groups which is linked below.
> > What has been said of APNIC is just many more times truer of ICANN....
> It is
> > just that ICANN supported and fed groups are simply not willing enough to
> > speak about the emperor's clothes.
>
>
> Once again, your cluelessness shines thru.
>
> The RIRs are NOT supported and fed by ICANN, in fact, the reverse is
> true.  I too was a RIR Policy Working Group Chair and I realised that
> during slow times (few or no policy proposals on the table) that
> holding meetings was not a futile exercise, as having regular,
> coordinated processes are essential to PDPs even when there are no
> current policy proposals to discuss.
>
> ICANN ALWAYS has policy proposals to discuss, in fact there are too
> many to keep track of at the moment.
>
> If you were really concerned about affecting change in this area,
> ICANN folks are just now putting together a timetable for the next
> round.  Now is not too early to get involved.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
>
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