Re: [ga] Re: WLS call follow-up

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

George and all assembly members,

George Kirikos wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> --- Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca> wrote:
> > I was disturbed by people making all sorts of claims that this is an
> > IP
> > issue when it isnt, especially people who obviously are not experts
> > on
> > intellectual property at all.
>
> I agree with you. The only reason opponents of WLS had to discuss it
> (e.g. with counter-examples of names caught by SnapNames that would
> seem to be trademark violations) was that Verisign brought it up as a
> possible advantage of WLS.

  Good point here George that seems to be mostly missed and misunderstood.

I hope we can expand a little on this aspect in tomorrow's Teleconference.

  Some thoughts on this:

  I fail to see that WLS benefits IP interests in any meaningful ways.  in
fact
as Marilyn rightly brought up and I followed up on as well, it would seem
that IP interests would be forced to use WLS if approved as ICANN
Policy or not should verisign implement WLS anyway.  And in being so
forced would still not necessarily in every case benefit at all from it's
use to address the delete issue.  Rather as a happenstance approach
to the symptom of the Delete problem issue, potential for damage
to a specific IP interest could be even more devastating as it would
not be readily caught until long after the fact.  That should, and I
predict will be particularly problemsom for many IP interests outside
the US in particular...

>
>
> Hopefully the employees of Verisign who are still beating this dead
> horse have the good sense to give WLS a proper burial, so that we can
> move on to more substantive issues that can be "win-win" for everyone,
> instead of a proposal which is "win" for Verisign and "lose" for most
> everyone else.

  Our members predominantly agree with you here George.  But our members
also recognize that dealing with the Delete problem issue is still and
increasingly
needed.

> Although, perhaps Verisign's bosses force them to toe
> the company line (I'd hate to be working there, and be forced to push
> this idea -- I felt sorry for Chuck Gomes today, as he seemed like a
> decent fellow!).

  I wouldn't worry to much about Chuck.  I am sure that he doesn't
cry on pay day when he cashes his pay check...  >;)  However he
may be more recently worried about any Verisign stock options
if he has not already exercised them...

>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
>
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