Re[2]: [ga-icann] interesting California law to consider

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Dassa,

Friday, June 15, 2001, 4:53:41 PM, Dassa wrote:

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> From: owner-ga-icann@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga-icann@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> NameCritic
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 6:33 AM
> To: ga - icann
> Subject: [ga-icann] interesting California law to consider


> CALIFORNIA CODES
> BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE
> SECTION 17000-17002




> 17000.  This chapter may be cited as the Unfair Practices Act.



> 17001.  The Legislature declares that the purpose of this chapter is
> to safeguard the public against the creation or perpetuation of
> monopolies and to foster and encourage competition, by prohibiting
> unfair, dishonest, deceptive, destructive, fraudulent and
> discriminatory practices by which fair and honest competition is
> destroyed or prevented.



> 17002.  This chapter shall be liberally construed that its
> beneficial purposes may be subserved.

> Leah could find this especially interesting.

> Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

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> ===

> I can't see why.  If anything the so called alternative roots would appear
> to be trying to stifle competition by attempting to stop ICANN from
> creating TLD's that exist in competitive roots.  ICANN has not attempted to
> stop any competitive root from deploying TLD's.  So this has no bearing on
> the situation.

Not to mention that if you read more than the small excerpt provided
by Chris, it cleary does not apply.

That is the problem with taking things out of context.....


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William X Walsh
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