Re: [gtld-council] string criteria

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

On 2 mar 2007, at 09.20, Ross Rader wrote:

> BTW - this situation exists no matter what administrative choices  
> we make. I believe you are proposing that we create options so that  
> ICANN can avoid the courts, but this simply amounts to recreating a  
> subset of these legal systems (badly) inside our various contracts.

Again not a lawyer, just grew up surrounded by them, but I would  
assume that no matter what rules ICANN creates it is still subject to  
all the other legal systems.
As I have argued before, if we wish to create string criteria outside  
the so-called low hanging fruit, I believe we will need to ban the  
use of any single word that can be represented in a dictionary  
anywhere, since every word can, and will, be claimed by someone as a  
trademark - even simple ones like 'it'.  And of course there are  
those who wish us to ban every posible mispelling, transliteration  
and misspelling of a transliteration of every possible trademark  
(i.e. every possible single word in a dictionary anywhere).
Personally, I do not believe it makes sense to go down this road.

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