Re: [wg-b] WG-B Deadline

[Ellen Rony <erony@marin.k12.ca.us>]

>However, I would encourage all participants in this list to voice their
>concerns now so that I can properly reflect your concerns in the interim
>report. I anticipate this interim report being made available for WG-B
>comment on or around April the tenth.

Nothing has occurred since I originally voiced my concerns to change them.
In fact, they are now strenghthened.  There are sufficient "protections"
for trademark owners through the phenomenally misguided TCA and UDRP that
exclusive worldwide protections for famous names seems superfluous, not to
mention potentially capable of unleashing a new bag of worms. How many,
which ones, how determined, who decides?  These are not insignificant
issues.

The famous marks list will become a political football.  Woolworth's was
famous for decades and was traded on the stock exchange by the letter "Z".
The stores are now closed, so does it lose its famosity status?  A
historian might say once famous, always famous, but most of us in the high
tech world for the past 20 years have seen companies both soar and fall.
Would loss of famosity be monitored annually?  Would loss of famosity
result in concurrent loss of the right to exclusivity, which might result
in a scrambling for those names released back into the available pool.

Any WGB "consensus" presentation provided to ICANN in Japan, if you are
even able to identify such,  should include a presentation of dissenting
opinions. This famousity list is a bad, bad idea.

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