[gnso-vi-feb10] Two questions relating to two examples offered in support of some "SR" claim

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To Richard Tindale and Kritina Rosette, initially.

Richard,

The two corporate entities which I know are interested in applying in 
the current round are Canon and UNICEF. Both have made their intent 
public.
The former has 19 sub-domains, the later 42.

Assuming that the current corporate use of their name space will be 
reflected in their application, the requirements of both for any form 
of registrar function could easily be met by either the reserved list 
mechanism or by any registrar either corporation selects by any means.
Is it your impression, having given the reserved list mechanism some 
thought, and the degree of impediment that use of a registrar actually 
amounts to, that either of these known instances necessarily require 
an "Exemption", either to Recommendation 19, or to any ownership or 
control restriction on registry-registrar combines, under any of the 
proposals contained in the Initial Report?
Kristina,

Where these two eventual applicants differ is in the claim each makes 
to prevail in any string contention, or to standing to object to any 
application by third parties. The first string is trademarked, the 
second is not.
Independent of the necessity for exemption question, is it your 
impression, having given the string contention mechanism some thought, 
is "brand" the most general application of the string contention and 
objection standing policies already adopted by Consensus Policy and 
present in the Draft Applicant Guidebook to the problem of forming an 
admission criteria for an application to obtain an exemption?
Thank you each for your thoughts.

In my personal opinion, neither seems a useful example of a entity 
which intends to allow a plurality of agency within the eventual name 
space, and so are unlike "membership" online organizations sometime 
mentioned without further specifics on this list, and also unlike the 
single brand with multiple affiliated franchisees or multiple brands 
with multiple affiliated franchisees discussed in the IP Constituency 
Statement.
Eric