Re[2]: A point of agreement (Re: [ga-roots] response to responsetoresponse)

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

Hello Gene,

Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 9:04:17 PM, Gene Marsh wrote:
> Harald, is this the position you really want to take?  By walking down this
> path, the "threat", as you have defined it, is not dependent upon the rights
> or technical viability of an organization's efforts, but solely on their
> size/money.  It ignores the rights an organization might have.  It puts
> images like this in the minds of the reader:

> ICANN Person #1: "What is it this CarribeanRoot Inc. claims to have
> established?  An operating business using a TLD?"

> ICANN Person #2: "Yeah, but they are pretty small."

> ICANN Person #1: "How small?"

> ICANN Person #2: "They don't even have a lawyer on staff.  Not much of a
> budget for marketing, either."

> ICANN Person #1: "So, what happens if we just ignore that they have any
> legal claim?  They can't do anything about it anyway, right?"

There are no legal claims, Gene.

The issue is not "legal claims" but one of simple market forces.  If
there is a "large" well established TLD in the alt.root community that
is getting active use and is visible by a truly significant percentage
of the internet population, then the simple market forces will most
likely cause other roots, including ICANN, to not create a TLD of that
name in their competitive root.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh
mailto:william@userfriendly.com
Owner, Userfriendly.com
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