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©
Copyright 2001 John
Berryhill,
Ph.D. J.D
At
the suggestion of the World Health
Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) has recommended
that the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) eliminate the
ability to register generic pharmaceutical
names (known as International Non-Proprietary
Names - INN's) within Internet domain names.
This coincides with the release of the
".info" top-level domain. The following
conversation was overheard at a recent
internet cafe'.
- Hi,
what are you doing?
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- I'm
registering a domain name.
-
- Oh,
yeah? What are you registering?
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- Caffeine.info
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- You
can't register that.
-
- Why
not?
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- That's
an INN.
-
- In
where?
-
- In
there. Your domain name is an
INN.
-
- No,
it's not an in, its a .info.
-
- No,
I don't mean the TLD, I mean the SLD is an
INN.
-
- But
the SLD is caffeine.
-
- That's
right.
-
- I
can't register caffeine?
-
- That's
right, you can't register
caffeine.
-
- Who
says I can't register caffeine?
-
- That's
right.
-
- Waddya
mean "That's right"?
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- I
mean WHO says you can't register
caffeine.
-
- Who
says?
-
- Exactly.
It's an INN.
-
- In
where?
-
- In
there.
-
- Who
is in there?
-
- No,
caffeine is in there.
-
- But
who won't let me register
caffeine?
-
- Exactly.
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- If
I register caffeine.info, then who is going
to take it away from me?
-
- Exactly.
-
- Oh...
I see, so if I register caffeine in there,
then Exactly is going to take it away from
me.
-
- No,
WHO is going to take it away from
you.
-
- That's
what I want to know, WHO is going to take it
away from me?
-
- Exactly.
-
- Okay,
so if you aren't going to tell me exactly
who, then would you at least tell me why
whoever thinks they can stop me from
registering caffeine?
-
- ICANN.
-
- You
can?
-
- No,
ICANN.
-
- That's
what I said. So why didn't you tell me you
were going to stop me.
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- I'm
not going to stop you. WHO is going to stop
you.
-
- But
then you said it was because "I
can."
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- That's
right.
-
- But
you aren't going to stop me from registering
caffeine.
-
- That's
right.
-
- Then
who is?
-
- That's
right.
-
- I'm
right three times and I still don't know why
I can't register caffeine, and what's in it
for who. But you can register it
instead.
-
- No,
I can't register caffeine either.
-
- You
can't register it because I can,
right?
-
- That's
right.
-
- But
you just said I couldn't. And now you are
saying I can?
-
- Exactly.
-
- So
why don't you leave me alone and let me
register caffeine.
-
- Go
ahead and try.
-
- And
you aren't going to stop me?
-
- That's
right.
-
- Okay,
I'll be back in a minute. I've been sitting
here too long and caffeine is a
laxative.
-
- Here,
take a roll of this with you, you'll need
it
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- What's
that?
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- WIPE-O.
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ICANN
.INFO
INN
WIPO
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CYBERWOCKY
FABLE
OF THE NAMES
ICANN:
THE MOVIE
ICANN:
THE SEQUEL
- LIMERICKS
RFC
- 527
- Arpawocky
RFC
- 1149
- A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian
Carriers
RFC
- 2100
- The Naming of Hosts
RFC
- 2826
- Technical Comment on the Globally Unique Button
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