Re: [Ianaplan] [CWG-Stewardship] ICG request concerning IANA trademark and iana.org domain name

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>> There is one peculiar aspect of this, which is that currently the IETF has
>no license to use the IANA trademark, yet it does appear to use it with
>regularity.

Once again, just mentioning a name is not a trademark use.  A use
identifies goods or services that someone provides.

We do not use the IANA trademark in the legal sense, because the IETF
does not provide IANA services.  Unless I'm missing something, the
RIRs don't use it either, for the same reason.

This whole argument appears to be based on misunderstandings of the way
that trademarks work.  Perhaps we could get some advice from trademark
experts who understand them better.

R's,
John