[council] ccTLD Communique from Bucharest

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

Greetings:


The attached is the ccTLD Communique from Bucharest, published
immediately after ccTLD meetings and distributed widely in Bucharest.

This paper includes some aspects of ccTLD position on ICANN Reform.

You may also recall several ccTLD Managers participating in the Open Forum
and giving comments - let me list few of them. 
 * Yes for lightweigh coordinating ICANN with distributed SOs - centers of 
   excellence and policy development.
 * Yes for separation of policy making and technical functions.
 * Yes for stability of the Internet, the universal system of names 
   and numbers.
 * Yes for responsibility to the community.
 * Yes for recognition of the role of ccTLD Managers locally,
   their efforts and resources spent locally on their own policy 
   matters, with local users including government, in corresponding 
   countries and territories.
 * Yes for geographic diversity, fundamental ICANN rule to be preserved
   and reinforced.
 * Yes for ccTLD financial contribution related to well defined activities
   of ICANN which come in addition to local efforts.
 
Elisabeth
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Subject: ccTLD Communique
From: Nigel Roberts (nigel@isles.net)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:09:07 +0100



We are pleased to attach the communique issued today by those ccTLD
managers meeting in Bucharest in connection with the ICANN Meeting, and
which is being presented to the ICANN Board within the next hour or so.

Kind regards

Nigel Roberts

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Communique of the ccTLD managers

Issued at Bucharest, 26th June 2002


Representatives of 57 Country Code Managers met at Bucharest, Romania
on 24 and 25 June 2002.

Useful and constructive discussions were held on various subjects of
interest to ccTLD Managers, notably on the topic of ICANN reform and various
concerns to relating the IANA function.

The ccTLD managers recognise the hard work carried out by the Committee
on Evolution and Reform within the very short timescale allowed. We are
pleased to see that a number of the concerns of the ccTLD community are
being taken into account, although there do appear to be a number of
points on which the ccTLD managers do not agree with the conclusions of
the Committee.

A response to the Committee's Blueprint for Reform which was published
at the end of last week was prepared during the two days of the ccTLD
managers' meeting, representing the initial views of those ccTLD Managers
present.

We *recommend* that ICANN make sufficient time available so that all ccTLD
managers world wide to be able to consider the details contained in this
important proposal.

The managers also considered in detail the functions and level of service
that ccTLD managers require from the IANA function and prepared a
requirements specification document (see below) which will be transmitted to
ICANN as the organisation currently charged with the operation of the IANA
function.

The ccTLD managers *reiterate* the urgent need (already identified at the
Special ICANN Meeting on Security and Stability of the Internet Naming
System held in Marina del Rey in November 2001) for a procedure for making
urgent or emergency technical changes. The recent business failure of a
major European telecommunications carrier used by a large number of ccTLD
managers has reinforced this need and highlighted the global stability risks
inherent in the absence of such procedures.

A number of ccTLD managers reported that ICANN had refused or delayed urgent
technical changes for procedural reasons (including a requirement for
delivery of the ccTLDs technical databases to the IANA).We regret the fact
that technical stability of the Internet was impacted as a direct result,
and alternative methods of ameliorating the situation had to be found. The
ccTLD managers present re-affirmed their committment to RFC1591 as the sole
guidance for the interaction between ccTLDs and the IANA.

The ccTLD Managers *reconfirmed* their committment to funding the necessary
IANA services and in addition to making a contribution for more general
community services.

A joint workshop was held with Government Advisory Committee at which a
number of matters of common interest to ccTLD managers and GAC members were
discussed. It was agreed with the GAC that joint working groups would be
created to deal with specific topics, including the principles under which
both the GAC and the ccTLD organisation operate.

The ccTLD Managers especially wish to thank the Chairman and the members of
the Governmental Advisory Committee for the opportunity for these useful and
very constructive discussions and we look forward to increased co-operation
in the future.
A number of presentations on Internationalised Domain Names were given to
the ccTLD managers which were received with very great interest by those
present.




Eur.-Ing Nigel Roberts, Chairman
Marianne Wolfsgruber, Rapporteur

(for those ccTLD managers present.)




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ccTLD IANA Service Requirements

Bucharest, 25 June 2002

* that IANA establish and follow differentiated processes for the different
types of IANA database update requests which are made by ccTLD managers with
a view to simplifing and expediting the submission and processing of simple
requests. (All present in favour)

* that IANA should automatically process all requests to change the IANA
database which are properly requested by the ccTLD manager and which are not
related to changing the ccTLD manager. (All present in favour)
that IANA and each ccTLD should agree an authentication method for changes
to the IANA database.(All present in favour)

* that IANA institute and maintain a formal Change Control system in order
to track all changes to the IANA database with a comprehensive and accurate
audit trail that is available to ccTLD managers.(All present in favour).

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