Re: [ga] New Thread - Registrar Reform.

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 10:13:51 AM, todd glassey wrote:

> William -
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> From: "William X Walsh" <william@wxsoft.info>
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> Cc: "James Love" <james.love@cptech.org>; <ga@dnso.org>; "Bret Fausett"
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> Subject: Re: [ga] New Thread - Registrar Reform.


>> Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 6:43:33 AM, todd glassey wrote:
>>
>> >     1)    WHOIS is not satisfactory as a statement of who owns what IP.
>>
>> But of course, the whois is not supposed to be a statement of who owns
>> intellectual property.
>>
>> The whois is about objects.

> I agree and using the current entry as placed their by the last registrar is
> no method of publicly stating who actually owns the IP.

Nor should it.  The whois is not an IP database.

>>
>>
>> >     o-    The concept that you could "stand in line for a name's
>> > availability" is ludicrous as well. Just because I do not renew a domain
>> > that was filed at one time with a certain registrar does not mean I am
>> > abandoning that specific IP. Just that my relationship on that domain is
> not
>> > being renewed with that Publications Agent, and that's all it means.
>> > Anything more is a different issue. This is why the incorporation of a
>> > WhoWas concept might make this easier to deal with.
>>
>> You assume that because you own some intellection property, that you
>> have a sole right to the use of a string characters in a domain name.
>>
>> The law doesn't give you those rights, why should the dns?

> It doesnt and thats the point.

That's a good thing  :)


So, I guess I am trying to understand what point you were trying to
make.

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