In connection with the question as to what the situation is in other legal systems regarding trademark vs. domain name as in the US court cases cited by Robin in her earlier posting: please find below a related email I sent to the council list. Chuck, from RyC, says he rather agree with our amendment to Recom.3, but would prefer to drop altogether the reference to trademark rights as well as to the freedom of expression rights. Anyway, about other legal systems, I'm not lawyer and don't have the linguistic apparatus to expose this in sound technical terms, but following the news and discussing with people, I've come to think that the underlying rationale in those cases corresponds well to what is known in the French legal system (and maybe in some others, too) as "class" of trademark. Trademark rights are not universal, all categories confused. Calling a style of furniture "Porto" or Bordeaux/Bordelais" is not an infringement to well-known drink trademarks as if when one attempts to call those same names (or very close & confusing variants) some liquors different from those well-known. The trademark rights pertain to specific, limited, and relevant domains (classes), leaving the trademark name available for other purposes in other domains. And until further notice otherwise, the Internet domain name is not a trademark name. Mawaki Note: forwarded message attached.