To: process.mail@wipo.int
From: "Alexander Svensson"
Subject: RFC-3
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:42:08 +0200
Name: Alexander Svensson
Organization: icannchannel.de
Position: Editor
Dear Mr. Gurry,
I would like to endorse the comments made by the Association for Computing Machinery's Internet Governance Project. The comments submitted to the WIPO regarding further domain name regulation show that there are very different attitudes towards the issues mentioned in the WIPO-2 Request for Comments.
The multi-level domain name system itself is an answer to the possibility of conflicts about names on the Internet: Additional top level domains can be tailored to the needs of specific communities and groups of organizations.
-- International Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) already have a top level domain of their own which e.g. the WIPO uses: .INT
-- International Nonproprietary Names for Pharmaceutical Substances can be especially protected in a .PHARMA top level domain
-- Perhaps the states of the world want to reserve a top level domain only for their own purposes, e.g. .STATE?
This would be much more suitable than placing state names under the commercial .com, under the networks .net or under the organizations .org top level domains.
Instead of artificially reducing the domain name space, it should be expanded to avoid conflicts. In any case, there should be no recommendation on an expanded UDRP before a review of the existing UDRP has taken place.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Svensson
Attached:
PDF comment file ( wipo-rfc3.pdf )