Re: [ga] What makes a corporation?
Bruce James wrote: To join the Business Constituency of the Domain Name Supporting OrganizationThank you, Bruce, for some useful information. It seems, however, that I may have over-assumed, i.e., that the DNSO even has a set of definitions for the various constituencies. If it does, would someone please point me to it? I see it good to have this business constituency, since all of its adherents will have positions with regard to such matters as e-commerce, security as to financial transactions on line, and so on, that may or may not have anything to do with domain names. However, I had got the notion from somewhere that there was a constituency specifically centered on the interests of the large corporations that have lots of trademarks that they would use in the battle over domain names. If there is not one, there ought to be -- some adherents of the business constituency would also fall into that class, some peanut-sized outfits like my own would not. As one of the responses on this subject pointed out, on some issues the "small businesses" will see eye-to-eye with the large ones; on other issues, particularly the TM/DN hassle, they will be quite incompatible. The business constituency evidently being an accomplished thing (based on a quick glance at the site given above), I'm suggesting that there be two constituencies that specifically take the two sides of the TM/DN hassle, and let the battle begin. I am identifying one of those as being the dominating TM owners, the other side as being individuals and small businesses or whoever that oppose such things as the UDRP and the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act, abominations if there ever were any (which indicates which constituency I would join!). It is the situation which permitted those abominations to come about, I believe, that has led to the currend demand by individuals, e.g., the IDNO, to demand a greater voice in Internet affairs. The issue, of course, is whether the present structure is such that
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Bill Lovell
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