[council] TOTALLY INCORRECT Information about CENTR

[Dennis Jennings <Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie>]

CENTR Colleagues,

A press article in a Swedish journal included the following TOTALLY 
INCORRECT information about CENTR.

"CENTR proposes the introduction of the TLD .eu in order to promote the 
interest of Europe.  Because the national TLDs are relatively small 
compared with .com, .net and .org, 33 ccTLDs decided in March 1998 to 
establish the organisation for lobbying called CENTR.  CENTR is 
representing the interests of these TLDs internationally, i.e. within 
ICANN.   With the exception of .eu CENTR, also promotes harmonisation of 
the rules for registering domain names in different TLDs which in the long 
run may change the rules within .se."

CENTR is NOT promoting the introduction of .eu  The CEC is making this 
proposal, and CENTR is considering its position on this.  Initial enquiries 
by CENTR members have determined that some EU country governments are 
opposed to the CEC proposals.

CENTR is NOT promoting the harmonisation of the rules for registering 
domain names in different TLDs.  CENTR regards the rules as a matter for 
each ccTLD.

We, the CENTR Executive and staff, are trying to find out whether this was 
just bad/stupid journalism - or whether there is perhaps a more sinister 
explanation.

Please make sure that the people in your country who should know about this 
are informed.

Dennis