Re: Re[4]: [ga] Call for a Working Group

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler-dompol@iodesign.com>]

> And, if
> I were either, I would jump at the chance to cut a deal with Melbourne IT to
> get in on this first round of new TLDs.  And, if I were Melbourne IT, I just
> might jump at the chance to replace .biz with .web.  So, the solution to
> this problem just might be to...

You get someone from ICANN to state, on the record, that they would
accept such a deal, and I'll eat my hat.

> As a carrot to get a deal done, ICANN might/should consider making a rule
> for all future registry applications along the following lines, "the entity
> making application may not currently be operational in any other root system
> nor lay claim to any previously held or believed to be previously held IP
> (Intellectual Property) rights for the particular TLD for which it is
> applying"

There goes. ATT and .MCI and .AOL and .IBM and .MSN and...

Christopher  

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