[35420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (richb@pioneer.ci.net)
Thu Mar 8 17:10:26 2001
From: richb@pioneer.ci.net
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In-Reply-To: <20010309060009.Y1052@ewok.creative.net.au> from Adrian Chadd at
"Mar 9, 2001 06:00:09 am"
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:05:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: adrian@creative.net.au
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Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Whats international trademark+patent arrangements say about this?
> See, .com is not all US-registered, and so if you were going to do
> something like this, where do non-US people fit in here?
I think that's precisely the issue at hand. How does one administer a
global flat name-space, given the lack of any global entity with the
authority to do so?
Right now, lawyers get paid big bucks by international firms to protect
a trademark or company name in a multitude of jurisdictions.
-rich
