Re: [ICANN-EU] IPv6, was: re-chartering this list: draft.

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Jeff Williams wrote:
>> But that is exactly the point: the current fashionable legal theories
>> decree that trademark laws apply to _every_ domain in existance.
>
> Yes this is how the TM lobby groups (Well funded BTW) would have all of
> us believe...  But of course it is not so...

What will stop a regional judge to ignore your opinion?

>> As long as we don't get the courts recognizing the differences
>> between domains and trademarks, there will be no solution to that.
>
> Completely agreed!  DN's and TM's are not necessarily related.

There can not be related. It's impossible. Trademarks are organised
hierarchically, but DNs are not.