Re: Structuring the Root

[peterd at Bunyip.Com (Peter Deutsch)]

[ You wrote: ]
.  .  .
> I assume that your contracts have a clause that reads something
> like: "This agreement will be constructed under the laws of ..."?
> 
> What jurisdiction is (or jurisdictions are) used in your contracts?  


In the past year I've signed agreements with jurisdiction
in Delaware, Sweden, Quebec, New York and a number of
other places I can't remember off the top of my head.
Sometimes it's the other guy's lawyers who get their way,
sometimes it's ours but this is not something I want to
bother others with or maybe even have them know about.


> My, not necessarily terribly relevant, point is that corporations _do_
> have a real location or perhaps locations.  Not the place they are
> incorporated, but perhaps the location of their headquarters or more
> likely the place they like to go to court.  I don't quite believe in
> the completely locationless corporation.

Nor do I, but I don't accept that we can or will eliminate
the use of DNS as a Directory Service as people will
continue to want meaniful names for finding things, for
marketing purposes, or because they're cute. I *don't*
want to have to explain to anyone where Quebec is and I
just don't think we can make laws about such things with
any confidence that we can make them stick.

					- peterd


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