RE: [wg-review] 11. IDNH Vote now - all those in favor

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Sotiropoulos [mailto:sotiris@hermesnetwork.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 12:48 PM
> 
> 1/13/01 12:37:47 PM, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:
> 
> >> From: Sotiropoulos [mailto:sotiris@hermesnetwork.com]
> >> But what gives anybody the right to claim that they own the 
> >> characters of a language, it's syntax, and semantics?  How do 
> >> you own the bits and bytes 
> >> that travel through your network?  people pay for the service 
> >> of transmission, and you provide that... OK, but what about 
> >> the linguistic issue?  Is not 
> >> language Public Domain?  
> >
> >Sure, just the same way that any other fundimental component of
> >communications are. However, when organized in a manner that 
> it represents a
> >specific idea, concept, or other intellectual property, it 
> becomes the
> >property of the one that did the formulation. It is their 
> work-product, no
> >one else's. Thus says, international copyright law. Also, 
> that does not
> >guarantee right of publication. The author can only publish, 
> what they can
> >afford to publish. 
> 
> But isn't it censorship when a third party decides what 
> should be put on the "space" initially formulated by somebody 
> else?  if someone tells you that 
> although you were the first to understand the importance of 
> the Internet for your business purposes (say 4 years ago), 
> and you formulated a previously 
> unformulated domain name, what gives the johnny-come-latelys 
> any rights to dictate what should be done with "your" 
> formulation?  This is the issue, and 
> I'm not misunderstanding it, perhaps you are (I don't know).

Please don't put me in the position of defending the UDRP. I hate it as much
as you do. But, it is NOT censorship. I'd rather liken it to licensed
highway robbery. To call it censorship is to elevate the problem beyond
where it properly deserves to be.

BTW, I won't stoop to debate-by-analogy. It proves nothing and I won't waste
my time on it.
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