Re: [wg-review] Re: dndef, 9

[Eric Dierker <ERIC@HI-TEK.COM>]

What's in a word?

I cannot finger it right now but Ms. Dyson said to the effect in a recent interview that God could make the world in six days
because he had Tabula Rosa. Her reason for this concept was to juxtapose it against our situation, and that is we ain't got
tabula rosa.

Let me suggest this; we do a great job of logically defining it. The registrar's attorney's get a look at our definition which
is diferent than what was intended in the contracts, but very advantageous to thier position as far as how much $$$ is owed
ICANN.  Now your definition post facto just made a swing of millions. Not smart.

But I do agree with your logic and working premise, I just think we need a more secure and well advised forum. Any Ideas?

Sincerely,

Sotiropoulos wrote:

> Eric Dierker wrote:
>
> > Ok, so now that you emphatically disagree. Let us set forth that it can be used in different ways and one has to look at
> > the context in order to clearly ascertain it's meaning.  Can we agree that it can be a Noun? Adjective?
>
> I'm more inclined to look at it as a tabula rasa (blank slate).  Context
> *may* determine *its* association, but this does not imply context as a
> necessary condition.
> For instance, the term "songbird" has a specific meaning in the English
> language.  Our fellow WGer Kent Crispin has staked out the relations and
> associations of  "songbird" within the scope of the COM universe.  He
> was the first to get there, so he chooses what it will be.  Now is
> songbird.com a noun or an adjective? you tell me, please.
>
> > To be sure I agree with your basic premise that we reach the least amount of obsurdity if we consider Domain Names as
> > property. OTOH I believe the contracts Mr. Crispin refers to are using it as a service, I am wincing here because I only
> > have second hand knowledge of some of those contracts.
>
> Which contracts specifically?
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>        Hermes Network, Inc.

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