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Re: [Bimi] Logo/Trademark conflict

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Wed, 10 April 2019 16:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Bimi] Logo/Trademark conflict
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On 4/10/2019 9:20 AM, Seth Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net 
> <mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net>> wrote:
> 
>     When the design of Bimi can deal with resolving this sort of
>     problem, it
>     will be reasonable to consider it more substantially.
> 
> 
> You could say the same thing about DNS or gTLD registrations. Legal 
> conflicts like this are outside the scope of what an interoperability 
> spec can reasonably address. No?


If there is no viable operational framework for a technical standard, 
then producing the standard is a study in -- at best -- futility or -- 
more likely -- a rich array of deception and significant damage.

This barrier to Bimi's working at scale has been noted constantly since 
the first Bimi talks.  Nothing about that barrier has changed.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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