Re: [ga] New Thread - Registrar Reform.

["todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>]

William -
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From: "William X Walsh" <william@wxsoft.info>
To: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "James Love" <james.love@cptech.org>; <ga@dnso.org>; "Bret Fausett"
<fausett@lextext.com>; <DannyYounger@cs.com>; <jo-uk@rcn.com>; "Cade,Marilyn
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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] New Thread - Registrar Reform.


> Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 6:43:33 AM, todd glassey wrote:
>
> >     1)    WHOIS is not satisfactory as a statement of who owns what IP.
>
> But of course, the whois is not supposed to be a statement of who owns
> intellectual property.
>
> The whois is about objects.

I agree and using the current entry as placed their by the last registrar is
no method of publicly stating who actually owns the IP.

>
>
> >     o-    The concept that you could "stand in line for a name's
> > availability" is ludicrous as well. Just because I do not renew a domain
> > that was filed at one time with a certain registrar does not mean I am
> > abandoning that specific IP. Just that my relationship on that domain is
not
> > being renewed with that Publications Agent, and that's all it means.
> > Anything more is a different issue. This is why the incorporation of a
> > WhoWas concept might make this easier to deal with.
>
> You assume that because you own some intellection property, that you
> have a sole right to the use of a string characters in a domain name.
>
> The law doesn't give you those rights, why should the dns?

It doesnt and thats the point.

>
> >     4)    And finally there is no plan in place from ICANN for what to
do
> > when a Registrar fails and takes their whole customer base down. The
victims
> > being the customers here. So what is the scenario for recovering from
> > Registrar failure then?
>
> See Data Escrow.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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