Re: Structuring the Root

[Dan Steinberg <dstein at travel-net.com>]

Just to save Peter some time (he keeps promising to get back to work <g>),
contracts follow the law that the parties agree to (with a few
exceptions).  People who deal internationally usually end up signing
contracts governed by laws outside where they live/work/play.  I live in
Quebec, and 99.973% percent of my work (on a dollar basis and yes this is
a real calculated number) is performed on contracts that are governed by
the laws of Ontario, various US states and other jurisdictions.  So your
idea doesn't really get us any closer to a solution..

Tim Salo wrote:

> > From: peterd at Bunyip.Com (Peter Deutsch)
> > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:45:20 -0400
> > To: domain-policy at open-rsc.org, rmeyer at mhsc.com (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
> > Subject: Re: Structuring the Root
> >
> > One more, and I'll go to work, I promise.
> >       [...]
> > Nope. Bunyip is incorporated under Canadian Federal law
> > (with offices in Quebec), we own a U.S. subsidiary
> > (incorporated in Delware) and a Canadian subsidiary based
> > in Toronto (Ontario). ...
> >
> > And for what it's worth, I was born in California, raised
> > in Australia and live in Canada, with Scottish and Alsatian
> > grandparents. Where would you have me register my personal
> > details?
> >       [...]
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> On the other hand, this may help us with domain names...
>
> -tjs