Agree with Avri, IGOs & some NGOs have legitimate concerns here and this was what ‘the community’ could work out as a mutually acceptable framework. I would think NPOC would be particularly interested in this ‘operational concern’... Bill On May 25, 2014, at 11:47 PM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 25-May-14 17:05, McTim wrote: >> I do not support this notion at all. > > Oh good. > > I tend toward supporting it. So we can share reasons. > > I tend to think that we need something for IGOs and NGOs that is the > equivalent protection to what business get by their use of trademarks. > I am not all that found of trademarks, especially on common language, > but they do exist and the do give advantages to commercial entities. > > I think the IGOs and those NGOs recognized by ECOSOC should get the same > level of protections that we have according the commercial enterprises. > I tend to look for parity in such things and this seems like that to > me. IGOs can't use the trademark system. Some NGOs can, but not globally. > > While I would personally prefer that trademarks had fewer privileges, I > think that IGOs and ECOSOC recognized NGOs should have the same privileges. > > avri *********************************************** William J. Drake International Fellow & Lecturer Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ University of Zurich, Switzerland Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, ICANN, www.ncuc.org [log in to unmask] (direct), [log in to unmask] (lists), www.williamdrake.org ***********************************************