Re: [ga] Status of the Review Task Force

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:55:59AM -0500, Andy Gardner wrote:
> At 11:55 PM +1200 7/9/01, DPF wrote:
> >.nz is an open TLD.  Anyone can register in it.  However it is not
> >marketed in competition with gTLDs, it is not operated to make
> >profits, it is operated to serve the local internet community.
> >
> >It would be repugnant to have policies like the UDRP imposed on ccTLDs
> >with nor regard to local law or just as importantly what serves the
> >local community best.
> 
> But watch for it to be slipped into the next round of "trade talks" between
> USA and Asia/Pacific countries.
> 
> They'll get the UDRP in the back door, like they did with Latin America.

Yes, that is almost certainly true.  

The DNS name space interacts with the TM name space.  The UDRP is there
because there is a need for it; in the long run it (or something very
much like it) is going to become a standard feature of all domain name
registries.  And to the extent that an alternate TLD becomes mainstream
enough to matter, it will be forced to adopt a standard DRP as well. 

Reality is sometimes hard to bear, but the only alternative is insanity. 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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