Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: WIPO

[Guenter.Hack@unisg.ch]

* Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> This is the key of the "introduction of new TLDs" issue.
> If we want to create new TLDs to reproduce the same business model,
> technical model, legal model of .com and clones, we lose our time.
> If, OTOH, we create diversity, the thing may have a meaning.
> One of the needs is to create one or more TLDs that have a different
> trademark policy. One of them, possibly, stating in the charter that the
> registration and use of names in this TLD does not constitute trademark
> infringement (and get WIPO to approve it).

This is an important aspect. A secure name space has to be created in order to
get non-profit oriented individuals and organizations out of the line of
corporate legal fire. This can only be obtained by legal, not by technical
means. Every corporation that signs up with corporate name space could be bound
by a contract to respect free-speech name space.

Developing guidelines for corporate and free-speech name space allocation will
be fun ;)

Guenter Hack
mcm institute
Universitaet Sankt Gallen
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