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

[Javier SOLA <javier@aui.es>]

At 12:07 20/07/99 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
>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.

False again, Milton. The arbitration is done by a third party, the process
is managed by WIPO and the referees are independent. ICANN does not
participate in arbitration in anybody's model.

I wish you would stop deforming what other people say for your own purposes.

Javier