TFZ and other social innovation [was request for special privileges]

[Marc Perkel]

I also agree. Someone has to speak for the "little guy". That someone
should be us.

On 10/5/2011 4:51 PM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
> I'm on record saying I love this idea.
>
> What do you envision? Actions such as trying to have NCSG run this
> TLD, making representation to some other orgs to convince them this is
> a good idea, or some other degree of DIY approah?
>
> Or rather enshrining the principle that some gTLD may self-regulate
> away from the trademark-first mentality, or some other degree of
> "prepare the regulatory grounds for cool applications" approach?
>
> Nicolas
>
> On 10/5/2011 12:28 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
>> So why can't we focus some energy on protecting the rest of the
>> membership?  I suggested .TFZ (trademark free zone) a while back, but
>> although there were no alternatives offered, the consensus was that
>> anything that could be seen as weakening a trademark anywhere was was
>> unacceptable to the members holding trademarks.  So we seem to be
>> focused on (even only responsive to) trademark issues - albeit for
>> "non-commercial" holders.
>> If all we're going to be is a niche in the trademark wars, I don't
>> see what NCSG is doing for me...
>> I'd like to hear from the candidates - what ideas do you have for
>> protecting the domain name interests of the non-trademark holding
>> members?  How can we reconcile the trademark holders' interests,
>> which are recognized in law, with the interests of those who can't
>> obtain trademarks for their uses and have no law to fall back on?
>> Surely we can come up with administrative/policy solutions - or even
>> advocate for appropriate law?
>> I'd also like to see other members take an interest in something
>> other than how to tweak trademark-based rules... (And once in a
>> while, Whois privacy :-)
>>
>> Timothe Litt
>> ACM Distinguished Engineer
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/attachments/20111005/6262e485/attachment-0001.html>