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Re: FYI: trademark names in URLs, URNs, and email

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Tue, 14 May 1996 04:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: FYI: trademark names in URLs, URNs, and email
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 96 12:46:02 JST
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> A bill that is rapidly making its way through the California 
> Legislature would impose fines and legal fees on Internet users whose 
> USER-ID, domain name or email address happens to be a registered 
> trade name or trademark.

Seemingly, now is the time to move IANA outside of California
or USA.

What can the California Legislature do agaist it?

							Masataka Ohta

PS

As a compensation, how about letting the California Legislature control
subdomains:

	rtm.ca.us.
	rtn.ca.us.

?

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