Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

1/14/01 2:17:25 PM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:

>If you in fact have a right, then you have a legal redress -- you can go
>to court to enforce your right.  But you can't go to court to force the
>market to provide you with something it doesn't want to give you.  

Really?  What about the UDRP, doesn't it do exactly that?  Isn't there a  `legal' after market in domains then? or only for *some people*?  

>If there are no restaurants in your town that serve pork, you can't sue
>them to make them serve you bacon -- doesn't matter how much you like
>bacon.  

Well, at least we can both agree that bacon generally refes to pork Kent.  Can we agree on what a domain is?

(Well you could sue, but you would lose).  On the other hand, in
>the US at least you have a real right to non-discriminatory practices on
>the part of the restaurant -- if you are black, and they refuse to serve
>you because of it, you *can* sue. 

One of the only words forbidden to be put up for sale by NSI was the words "Olympic" & "Olympiad", they were pretty non-discriminating with the rest 
though.  (kind of personally ticked me off that `olympic' thing.. i have quite a story about it, includes Burt Fainberg)

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.



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