Re: Draft New Draft

[edyson@edventure.com (Esther Dyson)]

Yes, especially to the last paragraph.

Esther Dyson 

At 11:52 AM 01/02/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:22:28PM +0100, Javier SOLA wrote:
>[...]
>> 
>> If what ORSC wants is to use the letter of 1591 to support that DNSO
>> maintains the deviations that have been created by the NSi monolopy or the
>> fact that some ccTLDs are managed for profit in no relation with the
>> country the ISO code belongs to, then I am definitely against. 
>
>The funny thing about all this is that the interpretation of 1591
>that IATLD is hanging their hat on is just an interpretation.  I have
>read it carefully, several times, and as far as I can see 1591 is
>perfectly consistent with a strong "pro-sovereign" position.  For 
>example, the statement that IANA is not in the business of deciding 
>what is and is not a country is, in my reading completely neutral 
>concerning whether countries have control over "their" ccTLD.
>
>I have come to think of this as very similar to the trademark issue,
>in fact.  A country has some distinct form of intellectual property
>right in its ISO code.  It is a complex property right, to be sure,
>different from trademark or copyright, but a right, nonetheless.  
>And the interesting question here is the relationship of that unique 
>property right with the domain name system.
>
>In any case, my opinion, and I suspect the opinion of ICANN, is that
>the founding documents of the DNSO should contain no policy
>statements at all.  They should just describe the organizational 
>structure and mechanisms.
>
>-- 
>Kent Crispin, PAB Chair				"Do good, and you'll be
>kent@songbird.com				lonesome." -- Mark Twain
>


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