[CWG-Stewardship] [client com] IPR Memo
Alan Greenberg
alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
Wed Aug 5 22:32:45 UTC 2015
Milton, you are free to assume anything you want about my mindset.
That does not make it so.
Alan
At 05/08/2015 06:28 PM, Mueller, Milton L wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>
> > If I were ICANN and about to hand over the TM, I would want to
> see something
> > stronger than just "hold", but perhaps to lawyers that is
> sufficient to imply will
> > police and defend.
>
>Alan, you seem to be starting from the assumption that ICANN is the
>natural and appropriate steward of the marks, and IETF Trust must
>somehow prove its worthiness of handling them. But I have not seen
>an argument from you, or from anyone on this list, as to why ICANN
>is a more appropriate steward compared to the IETF, which invented
>the term and the functions of IANA and has referred to it thousands
>of times in its RFCs going back decades. I don't think there is any
>evidence that the integrity of the IANA trademarks are important to
>ICANN or essential to its core mission of policy development for
>names. I think there is a very obvious argument as to why the
>concept and identity of IANA are essential to the mission and
>activities of the IETF. On the merits, the burden of proof lies on
>ICANN to show why it should be holding the marks at all. At the very
>least, let's apply the same standard to ICANN that we are applying
>to the IETF Trust.
>
>--MM
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