RE: [ga] Unfair?

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

Michael,
sigh,) I'll face days or weeks of postings about how devious and underhanded
I am as a representative of a large corporation, but I will try this anyway.

Gathering up the interests of users is a challenge. And yes, individuals are
extremely important, but the good of society sometimes overrides... that is
the genesis of the U.S. constitution, isn't' it? 

Our foregathers decided to do the common good thing, rather than maintain
the individuals forever thing...You might not like it, but business is being
conducted on the internet and that means stability issues, consumer fraud,
and trademark protection are relevant issues. 
You can categorize me as only concerned about big business. but you are
missing a point which I know you will care about because you care about
individuals: there's a lot of consumer fraud associated with the misuse of
trademarked names. We are fighting that and protecting consumers... you
don't want to see that grow... 

Can't we share some concerns about the individual consumers? 

Mar
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sondow [mailto:msondow@iciiu.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 6:00 PM
To: Randy Canis
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Unfair?


Randy Canis wrote:
>
> I hope that one day the policies implemented by a governing body (be it
WIPO, ICANN, or otherwise) fairly implement the concerns of everyone.

How can that ever be, when the Internet users who are not wealthy
businesses are never permitted to participate in policy-making?
 
> Michael Sondow on the other hand felt the need to categorize me, by >
telling everyone how I (Randy Canis)  define "fair", what I value, and > how
I believe medical services should be allocated.

Your posting, to which I was responding, expressed ideas and
opinions based on the belief that trademark owners (aka big
business) have a superior right to domain names than other entities.
If that is not grounded in the philosophy that money = power =
right, then perhaps you can tell us what philosophy it is grounded
in?

Michael Sondow
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