Re: FYI: trademark names in URLs, URNs, and email from Masataka Ohta on 1996-05-14 (uri@w3.org from May 1996)

From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Tue, 14 May 96 12:46:02 JST
To: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter)
Cc: uri@bunyip.com
Message-Id: <199605140346.MAA07358@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>

> A bill that is rapidly making its way through the California 
> Legislature would impose fines and legal fees on Internet users whose 
> USER-ID, domain name or email address happens to be a registered 
> trade name or trademark.

Seemingly, now is the time to move IANA outside of California
or USA.

What can the California Legislature do agaist it?

							Masataka Ohta

PS

As a compensation, how about letting the California Legislature control
subdomains:

	rtm.ca.us.
	rtn.ca.us.

?

Received on Monday, 13 May 1996 23:55:55 UTC