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Re: [wg-b] famous names

To: James Love <love@cptech.org>, jtrexler@aya.yale.edu
Subject: Re: [wg-b] famous names
From: Harald Alvestrand <Harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 06:20:01 +0930
Cc: "Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>, "'Philip Sheppard'" <philip.sheppard@aim.be>, Working Group B <wg-b@dnso.org>
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At 18:59 28.03.00 -0500, James Love wrote:
>It is my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) that law suits
>regarding the inclusion of new registries in the root were rejected on
>the grounds that NSI was a government contractor.  If ICANN is
>successful in ending its government contract, what would be the basis
>for preventing a non-profit trade association of used car dealers from
>claiming they should have .usedcars in the root?  Would there be grounds
>for an antitrust suit against ICANN?   Could ICANN really hide behind
>the trademark constituency and say "they won't let us open the root?"

a *global* non-profit trade association of used car dealers, of course....

                  Harald


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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

References:
- RE: [wg-b] famous names
  - From: Jeff Trexler <jeff_trexler@yahoo.com>
- Re: [wg-b] famous names
  - From: James Love <love@cptech.org>

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