Re: Agenda for next NANOG - interest in domain names?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 09:33:33 -0400 To: "Susan R. Harris" <srh@merit.edu>, nanog@merit.edu From: Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com> Subject: Re: Agenda for next NANOG - interest in domain names? [...] Is there any interest in a presentation explaining:
- the latest changes in NSI's flawed domain name trademark policy, [...]
While I don't necessarily like the tone of the e-mail message, I think it would be interesting to hear an independent legal opinion of the issues. Perhaps, a little about the legal background, (e.g., trademark law), a summary of what issues are fairly clear from a legal perspective, a descriptions of the areas where the legal answers are not yet clear, and the level of risk to various parties. On the other hand, I don't know that NANOG is the right forum for this. Any suggestions for a better forum? -tjs
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Tim Salo wrote:
On the other hand, I don't know that NANOG is the right forum for this.
Seems to me the issue is adequately documented at http:www.patents.com/nsi.sht and possibly there may be some documents on the resource page at http://www.memra.com/ndbg.html that also apply. Two good reasons not to discuss it at NANOG are that NSI does have a domain-policy mailing list and other than taking up the issue with the company, they are operating under a co-operative agreement with NSF and the FNC (http://www.nfs.gov and http://www.fnc.gov) which takes it straight into the realm of politics. And since NSI registers international domains the issue has even been discussed within the ITU and at OECD meetings. Do you REALLY want to know more? Then go to this meeting at Harvard on September 8th http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/cai.html Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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