Re: lp:trademark_name field

Hi Gavin, Volker,

I think that a trademark_name field might be required, as long as 
there's no way to query the trademark_name from (trademark_number, 
trademark_locality) in realtime, for all permitted localities.

Reason is that a registry should immediately refuse a domain 
application, if the respective trademark_name does not cover the domain 
name that's applied for.

A registry making use of the launchphase extension should publish the 
set of allowed charactes for trademark_name, and should define a 
function which validates if a trademark_name covers a domain name (e.g. 
a german umlaut Ö could cover Ö only, or Ö, O and OE).

I would not a flag like "type='loc/int'" for this purpose, as it only 
says 'unicode' vs. 7-bit ASCII. Some registries might e.g. want to limit 
e.g. to cyrillic chars only.

Best,
-jens


Gavin Brown schrieb:
> Hi Volker, thanks for your feedback.
>
>> I had a look at the draft and thought about some experiences we had with
>> launch phases. A question regarding the lp:trademark_name field 
>> appeared.
>
> My understanding of this field is that it does not contain data that 
> is used to validate the applicant's eligibility.
>
> When a trademark clearinghouse is validating an application (for 
> example.foo, say), they will take the trademark number (provided in 
> the <lp:trademark_number> element) and use this to obtain the full 
> trademark information from the trademark authority that has 
> jurisdiction over the locality specified in the 
> <lp:trademark_locality> element. This information will include the 
> trademark name. The clearinghouse will then apply whatever the TLD's 
> policy is for confirming that the trademark matches the domain name 
> being applied for.
>
> The <lp:trademark_name> field is therefore only a hint used to confirm 
> the mark to which the application refers, but doesn't uniquely and 
> solely identify it. It may not even be needed.
>
> Does anyone agree/disagree?
>
> G.
>


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