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Decentralized Identifier Ecosystem Extensions
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Clarify the registration process wrt. trademarks and copyrights #595

Open msporny opened 1 day ago

msporny commented 1 day ago

The current specification doesn't say that in order to block or remove a registration that a /registered/ trademark is required. The language around copyright is also problematic (granting a copyright holder the broad ability to block a registration). The text needs to be updated to remove much of the evaluation burden from the maintainers (by requiring that the trademark owner has the burden of proof). The purpose of this issue is to track this desired clarification.

mwherman2000 commented 9 hours ago

ready for pr ... The purpose of this issue is to track this desired clarification.

This is a contradiction. @manu please remove the "ready for pr" label until there is more concensus on what the eventual solution is ..i.e. avoid dueling PRs. ...perhaps tag your idea as a proposal.

mwherman2000 commented 9 hours ago

We can't rely or restrict the uniqueness of a DID Method name based solely on trademarking due to some DID Method names not being trademarkable. Read https://github.com/w3c/did-extensions/issues/597 for a super/meta proposal,