Re: [council] GAC and country name reservations

["Erica Roberts" <erica.roberts@bigpond.com>]

Hi Milton,
As I indicated in my earlier email on this subject, I agree that it would be
almost impossible for governments to agree a set of rules by which to
determine who has rights to a particular politico/geographical string.
However, without some such rules it is difficult to imagine how the GAC
recommendation could be implemented and we have nothing to lose - but
everything to gain -  by referring the issue back to the GAC for
clarification and reconsideration.

erica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>
To: <philip.sheppard@aim.be>; <mcade@att.com>; <erica.roberts@bigpond.com>;
<harris@cabase.org.ar>; <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [council] GAC and country name reservations


> Erica:
> Your comments assume that one can define "rights to
> strings" in a mechanical fashion; i.e., by preparing a
> list and then removing those names from DNS.
>
> That is wrong. It's bad policy, it won't work, ever.
>
> We went through this in talking about a list of "famous
> trademarks," remember? Such a practice was soundly
> rejected by the Internet community, and even the
> more intelligent members of the trademark bar
> recognize it as a disaster in the making.
>
> We all know how governments behave. To governments,
> the name space is another piece of territory, and they
> want to carve it up and draw boundaries on it and
> stick their flag in the middle. That process is fundamentally
> inimical to the growth and development of the Internet.
>
> We need to reject that whole mentality.
>
> >>> "Erica Roberts" <erica.roberts@bigpond.com> 10/06/01 10:17PM >>>
> I think the key point here is that until we have further definition of the
strings in question and proposed rules for determining who has rights to the
relevant strings, then it is difficult to see what would (and would not) be
required to implement the GAC recommendation.  Before we can
>