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

[Christopher Wilkinson]

> … a whole bunch of requests to register things.

But all the registrations will be based on RFCs. Correct?

CW


On 04 Aug 2016, at 13:50, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
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