Re: [wg-c] historical trivia (getting to the Shepperd/Kleiman "p

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 14-Mar-2000 Paul Garrin wrote:
> Please do your due diligence before publishing such patetly false and
> inaccaruate opinions about something you evidently know very little or
> nothing about, apart from your speculative and emotional characterizatons
> all of which have no basis in reality.

I think you have him confused with yourself, Paul.

Name.space and any of the operators of alternative TLDs have no right to expect
introduction or prior use rights here.  None.  You knew perfectly well you were
operating outside of the system, and your attempt to get that system tossed out
in court failed, miserably.  You have no leg to stand on here.

Any proposal which gives "alternative" tld operators advanced standing in this
process, or any expectation that that they will have any rights to the strings
they have self declared for themselves, would be patently unfair. It would work
against those who, unlike yourself, have invested years of working within the
system to acheive these goals.  You should have no more and no less standing
than anyone else at the end of this process.

Your arguments opposing this view and based only on emotion, and not on the
facts.  The facts do not support your view, and the courts have even recognized
that your arguments were invalid.

Any attempt to grandfather "alternative TLDs" into the system will meet with
staunch opposition, and there is no way that consensus will exist on that point.

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