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Re: [wg-b] Straw Vote Results

To: rmeyer@mhsc.com
Subject: Re: [wg-b] Straw Vote Results
From: mark@bitshift.org
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:00:13 -0700
cc: "Martin B. Schwimmer" <martys@interport.net>, wg-b@dnso.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Oct 1999 07:47:29 PDT." <NCBBJBALBKNODIJDEFMHMEBKIFAA.rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Sender: owner-wg-b@dnso.org


On 6 October 1999, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:


>In light of the news, that you dropped yesterday, that DNS names cannot
>be trademarks, or represent trademarks, It can then be argued that DNS
>names cannot violate trademarks either. Ergo, there is no issue with
>famous marks since  the ability to violate a trademark is a
>pre-requisite for violating a famous mark. Ergo, exclusionary lists are
>irrelevant and possibly illegal for the stated purpose, under US law.


My reading of that was that a TLD (e.g., .com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov,
.mil, and so on) could not be a trademark.  Unless whoever authored that
piece was confused as to what is a TLD and what is an SLD.

-- 
Mark C. Langston
mark@bitshift.org
Systems Admin
San Jose, CA

References:
- RE: [wg-b] Straw Vote Results
  - From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>

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