Re: [wg-c] Re: IP/TM Concerns & New GTLDs

["Kevin J. Connolly" <CONNOLLK@rspab.com>]

One of the things that bothers me is that my points 
keep getting turned into strawmen.

We are dealing with a demonstrated 357-kilo gorilla.  
It has some very well-defined objectives.  We can either
ignore those objectives, and make about as much 
difference in the Internet as the IAHC did, or we can
address those objectives, in which case we have a very
good chance of seeing our proposals become reality.

Talk about adding seven new registries and 21 new gTLDs
to the root right away, and in fact you're galvanizing a fairly
powerful lobby into opposing us.  The TM interests spent many
buckets of ducats last time to make the IAHC proposal die;
it's not very likely that they'll be asleep at the switch when a
proposal of at least three times the magnitude of the IAHC
proposal gets floated.

Unless, of course, someone has about $25MM to start a very classy
PR campaign.  Donors, anyone?

KJC

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