Re: [wg-review] [DNDEF] short quizz 9,10

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:52:58AM -0600, Miles B. Whitener wrote:
> As with other responses, I can't read everything you wrote below
> right now.
> But it sounds like you are saying the US Government is the cause
> of this.

No, actually it is the end-users of the DNS who are the cause of this. 
The White paper was the result of a public process in which many
comments were collected, and the clauses in the White Paper were put
there because that was the sentiment expressed in many compelling
comments.  There are in fact *very* good arguments for a UDRP; there
is no real question as to whether there should be one.  There are 
questions as to whether there are flaws in the current process -- most 
people believe there are, and that the UDRP needs adjustment of some 
sort. 

The UDRP came from end-user demand.  Some people find it inconvenient to 
consider TM owners as end-users like themselves, but "them's the facts".

> This is not too surprising.  The last president put many people
> into power who had little experience and whose main
> "qualification" was a socialist / globalist political agenda.

Perhaps true, but in the context it is a singularly shallow and
uninformed comment.  In fact, the whole ICANN process is an an effort 
to privatize something under government control.

[irrelevant political rant deleted]

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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