Re: The telephone network and the internet (RE: [ga] ALAC comment s on proposed Bylaws modifications)

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, at 17:27 [=GMT-0500], John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote:

> > at cost. For downloading _official_ electronic texts from a UN
> > organization there should be no charge. Unless there are reasons why it is
> > good that as little people as possible actually read the texts. Could be.
>
> All parties to this discussion need to read Carl Malamud's book on his
> odyssey to try to publish ITU recommendations on the internet.
>
> Do you remember when WIPO was suggesting that all International
> Non-Proprietary Pharmaceutical Names (maintained in a list by WHO) be subject
> to protection in domain name space?  I challenge you to find a list of them.

I like challenges, but I give in. By the way, one cannot find out whether
something is a trademark in all countries for free. So WIPO is not
inconsistent :-)

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