Message-Id: <199808272213.AAA05691@mickey.xos.nl>
To: pmitros@MIT.EDU
Subject: Linux trademark
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:13:57 +0200
From: Willy Konijnenberg <willy@xos.nl>


I just read your comment on the LSA issue, and your assesment that
recovering the linux.org domain might be difficult.
It made me think of the discussions about trademark issues with
xyz.com names, where the US domain authority set rules to allow the
legal owner of a trademark to recover its domain name, after people
started to hijack high-profile trademarked names.  I don't know what
the current situation is regarding this, and whether it would equally
apply to xyz.org domain names, but I though we might consider this a
possible route to a solution, since it would, technically, give Linus
first choice access to the linux.org and linux.com names.

-- 
     Willy Konijnenberg <willy@xos.nl>
     X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands