Re: PAB member contribution to Washington D.C. discussions

Robert Shaw (robert.shaw@itu.int)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:27:50 +0100

Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> Well there is, of course, NSI. They are owned by SAIC and SAIC is very,
> very adept at Washington lobbying.
>
> The trademark policing concerns which create pressure to have the smallest
> number of additional TLDs (such as 1) are being strongly advocated by IBM
> and ATT.

The latter is not quite true. IBM has just wanted a slow phase of the new
gTLDs. In fact, some of us had lunch with the IBM representative in D.C. a few
days ago. We were told that following internal review of our responses to various
issues, they were on the verge of announcing in a press conference that they
support us. However, things are now on hold with them until they see what Magaziner
is up to.

robert

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Robert Shaw <robert.shaw@itu.int>
Advisor, Global Information Infrastructure
International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int>
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