Re: [wg-review] Review WG Membership

["eric Jonvel" <ejonvel@ej.net>]

So,
Now that everyone knows everyone, could we start
the wg ?
What will be our roles in the group ?

Eric Jonvel
France.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Leeper" <BLeeper@ibill.com>
To: "'YJ Park'" <yjpark@myepark.com>; <wg-review@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: [wg-review] Review WG Membership


> Thank you for including me in the membership;
>
> You wrote:
> First, I recognized those who want to be in this group, however
> there should be a process to ask members to provide his/her name
> and their constituency in order to reassure this group is in balance.
>
> Barry Leeper
> Responsibilities: Director of Intellectual Property at Internet Billing
> Company, Ltd.
> Business Experience: Currently Own and Manage 350 Domain Names,
> Internationally
> Personal Experience: Web & Flash Designer responsible for registering
domain
> names for small business owners since 1994
> Legal Experience: Involved in trying to overcome numerous cases of
> cybersquatting and typsosquatting
>
> My Current Concerns:
> 1) Need for companies to buy up additional TLD's to prevent cybersquatters
> from owning names just used as bargaining chips or cyber hostages
> 2) Need for companies to buy up additional TLD's to prevent abuse from
> look-alike names by those attempting to masquerade as businesses
> (typosquatting)
> 3) Lack of ability for individuals to compete with large businesses for
> names that may be useful to both
> 4) Equitable way to offer up domain names to small businesses who might
find
> that their domain names of choice will never become available to them
> because the names are either trademarked or grabbed by those with pull
> 5) Need for names not renewed or not actually being used to be placed back
> in circulation
> 6) Will those that pre-register for new TLD's ever be satisfied?
>
>
>