RE: [wg-b] Re: ICANN's Mandate

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Actually, thaty power does reside within the NTIA, which the DOC, is a part
of. DOC and PTO are peer organizations, under NTIA.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-b@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-b@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> d3nnis
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 8:57 PM
> To: Mike Roberts; Martin B. Schwimmer
> Cc: edyson@edventure.com; wg-b@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-b] Re: ICANN's Mandate
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> Mike Roberts Wrote:
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> >The USG White Paper, which is ICANN's chartering policy document,
> > clearly puts trademark issues that intersect with the Domain Name
> > System on our agenda.
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> <snip>
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> Surely you don't contend that  Congress transferred its power to write
> trademark statutes to the Department of Commerce, which then passed
> it to ICANN?  Or do you?
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> >Dennis Schaefer
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