WIPO RFC-3
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Subject: WIPO RFC-3
I think that RCF3 doesn't guarantee the right of individuals and small businesses, giving an unfair advantage to big corporations with a good legal department.
It also poses a threat to free-speech and to the right of privacy which have been two of the most distinguishing traits of the Internet up to now.
I also think that an individual should have every right to register its own name under the forthcoming .per and .nom TLDs, without risking trademark litigation, since the separate hierarchy should not pose a problem of trademark dilution (after all those hierarchies have been designated for personal use by individuals, not as means of advertising a trademark).
Better still, divide the namespace in hierarchies with trademark recognition/protection, were the WIPO proposed arbitration process would be applicable, and hierarchies which can be used freely for free-speech, free-expression, political satire or whatever purpose.
Since these would be different hierarchies, with a designated purpose, there would be no problem of trademark dilution.
So I ask the WIPO working committee to include the corrections suggested by professor A.Michael Froomkin at http://www.law.miami.edu/~amf/
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