On 17/7/17 3:05 am, Paul Keating wrote:
If we halted all TMCH use for sunrise purposes I see no huge loss for trademark holders. And such would resolve the underlying problematic issue - the use of the TMCH in the context of providing a preemptive, perpetual, globally exclusive right to a domain name that far exceeds any right granted by any trademark law or treaty.
Very well put. Just a reminder that there is already a proposal on the table to eliminate the Sunrise. From what I can tell we haven't officially come to discussing it yet but I trust that we will. -- Jeremy Malcolm Senior Global Policy Analyst Electronic Frontier Foundation https://eff.org jmalcolm@eff.org Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161 :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World :: Public key: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122