Re: [wg-c] I/O Design Initiates Legal Proceedings against CORE

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

Javier SOLA wrote:

> The above statement is false. Kent has never stated that "the DNS
> administrator *must* get directly involved in the resolution of trademark
> disputes in second-level names". Quite the contrary, the registry operator
> is just an entity delegated by ICANN, a database operator, and should not
> be involved in any of this stuff, nor policy.

By the "DNS administrator" I meant ICANN. ICANN, not registries, is who
administers the domain name system (DNS). And unfortunately, the
IAHC/CORE/gTLD-MoU proposal, as well as the WIPO proposals, got the DNS
administrator directly involved in dispute resolution.

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