[Chapter-delegates] New ATLARGE Structure Internet Society China

[Vint Cerf]

ISOC of New Zealand also hijacked the Internet Society brand - they
eventually rebranded themselves, I believe. I am really unhappy about this
kind of thing. I tried for quite a while re NZ and eventually they changed
leadership and their attitude. The Chinese have been using the name for a
long time without any affiliation. I think it may be hard to get them to
stop - the trademark world is rife with cases where failure to defend the
mark loses control. The term "Internet" cannot be trademarked except it has
to refer to the "network of networks" we call "Internet" (a ten year battle
against a banking consortium that was granted the trademark to "Internet" -
it cost CNRI ten years and $100K in legal fees and only went away when
there was a change in management that didn't think it was worth fighting
further.).

I am glad to see that Kathy is going to dig into this further.

Kathy, do we have a recorded trademark for "internet society" ?

v


On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Folks
> Recently the  ICANN ATLARGE  voted to include the civil society
> organization called    Internet Society China into the  ALS membership of
> APRALO.   They are not a  ISOC  Chapter.
>
> I have  tried to bring up the issue of  organizations that confuse the
> public as to what is a legitimate ISOC chapter.  But  no one has  taken
> notice.
>
>  I have  been notified  ISOC  that  the  www.isoctoronto.org    has been
>  a rogue  site for  a few years   I am including a screencapture of the
>  registration page they have  people  falsely add their information.
> We need to have a process of  dealing with these type of  false or rogue
> sites that  misinform the public.   Since  ISOC is  branding itself as a
> viable strong organization and it turns a blind eye to this situation we
> have a problem.
> Glenn
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>
> Glenn McKnight
> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
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