Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] VI Use Case Template, PLEASE READ EMAIL BEFORE VIEWINGATTACHMENT!!!!!

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Milton,

Apropos of your remarks to Tom, examples both illuminate and obscure.

The active participants of the gnso-idng list struggled with this
issue in November and December.

I was responsible for a draft, which attempted to address issues
relating to "confusingly similar", and which contained several examples.

The second example was "duck", which is a single character, and I
didn't want to use an example with less than two characters, as that
is another area where the locus is on label length, not the example
sought here, so I made it "duck soup" and, via Google's language tool,
the translation "鸭汤" (yā tāng). Note the Marx Brothers reference.

This has the disadvantage of being an example of "meaning", yet
"meaning" was the greatest concern I am aware of, off-list and on-list.

It is remotely possible that few, if any, are as, or more concerned,
with your right to write arbitrarily, as they are with what examples
illuminate, or mis-illuminate, that is, with the subject matter at
hand, rather than the status of other contributors.

There are areas of closely held knowledge which, if used as an
example, have vastly different primary meanings to those with the
background, and those without that prior knowledge. To arrive at a
best understanding of the contributors to this PDP, common terms and
common meanings are profoundly useful. Therefore, some thought and
care for others has to go into the creation of the intellectual
objects we create and interact with.

To give an example of something we don't yet _know_, we don't yet
_know_ if when we say "single registrant" we are referring to
.quixotic-persona" and some few entrants, say .waiting-for-godot and
the entries "vladimir" and "estragon", or a capital or liability
accumulation of very large size and a very large class of persons with
a relationship to the accumulation, say .dukes-v-walmart with a
zonefile consisting entries for each of the 1.6 million women employed
at Walmart since 12/26/98, and plaintiff's counsel, defendant's
counsel, their witnesses and pleadings, and the courts.

We simply don't know if "SR" means
{abuse,legal,marketing,sales}.soap-corp or something the size of .org.

Eric