[CWG-Stewardship] FW: [Iana-ipr] IANA IPR - Proposed resolution of selected legal issues

[Andrew Sullivan]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 06:36:23AM +0100, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> 
> "The IETF Trust reserves the right to require the Licensee or the
> requesting OC to pay out of pocket costs for any additional registrations,
> which will be owned by the Trust."
> 
> Considering that the COs already remunerate the licensee in one way or the
> other for IANA services, I thought it might be neater for the
> licensee[ICANN] to be the one handling any out of pocket cost for new
> registrations instead of having COs deal with the trust directly on that.

I see.  Well, this bit is really an attempt to protect the Trust from
a whole bunch of requests to register things.  So who bears the cost
is part of the point: if you want 1000 new mark registrations all over
the world, then you will have to do the cost-benefit analysis of the
value because you'll pay the costs.  Otherwise, the incentives are
misaligned.

To be clear, while I am a Trustee I'm not speaking for it here.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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