RE: [ga] .ie Seeks to Organize Irish Bid to Run .eu

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Sandy Harris [mailto:sandy@storm.ca]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:16 AM
> 
> > Bruce James wrote:
> 
> > I think that ICANN should assign dot.EU to the European 
> Commission and let it decide
> > who will run it.....IMHO
>  
> If that were a motion, I'd second it. However, it doesn't 
> seem to be, so I'll
> propose my own:
> 
>  ICANN should immediately inform the European Commission that 
> .eu will be created
>  at their request, and instruct Verisign to make preparations 
> to have it running
>  within two working days of receipt of such a request.
> 
>  The letter informing them of this should specify (possibly 
> by reference to
>  existing documents) what name server and other information 
> must be provided and
>  what administrative procedures will be required to 
> authenticate the request.
> 
>  Any charges involved should be no more than a reasonable 
> administration fee.
> 
> Do I have a second? Debate?

I can second this motion with caveats and clarifacations;
EU will most probably be run from RIPE. RIPE already has zone servers of
their own. The only this is that NSI must make the zone entries into the DOC
root zone. For that, the USG/DOC/NTIA must approve it. Therefore, that is
where the letter must go. ICANN has no direct power to instruct Verisign to
do this.

> I see no reason and admin fee should be more than about $100, 
> 50 bucks each for
> clerical work at ICANN and an hour's system admin time at 
> Verisign. I wouldn't
> argue if someone with better knowledge than mine of ICANN and 
> Verisgn systems
> said $1000 was justified, though.

It is the height of arrogance to presume to tell a sovreign state, or other
militarily strong political body, what they can or can't do within their
domain. EU will charge whatever they want.

> Nor do I see any reason this needs much discussion. The 
> domain makes sense
> and the organisation seems quite likely to be competent to 
> administer it.

Drop the fee limits and it might pass. Otherwise, further discussions are
certainly guaranteed.
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