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[ga] Meeting on the creation of .EU TLD, Brussels, 28 March
Dear Names Council of the DNSO,
I write to request you assistance in passing the following invitation to
those within your constituencies who may have an interest in the creation
of a .EU TLD.
In an attempt to reach the wider Internet community, this notice will be
posted to a number of mailing lists. Apologies to those who subscribe to
more than one of those lists for any multiple postings.
Fay Howard
CENTR General Manager
Invitation to attend an open Meeting on the Creation of .EU Top Level Domain
Brussels, 28 March 2000.
Introduction
On 2 February 2000, the European Commission published a Working Paper on
the creation of a .EU Top Level Domain for public comment. CENTR, the
Council of European National Top Level Domains formed a working group to
consider the Commission's Working Paper. A press release followed
indicating CENTR's intention to initiate wide consultation before
responding to the Commission. In the course of these consultations, it
became clear that a public meeting would enable CENTR members and other
interested groups to benefit from expert opinion and take input from all
areas of the European Internet Community.
CENTR will therefore host an open meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, 28 March
2000 at which interested parties may attend and give their views.
Representatives of the European Commission, ICANN board and staff and all
constituencies of the DNSO will be invited as well as legal and business
experts in relevant fields.
Apologies for the short notice but we feel it is important to be able to
give the Commission our report as quickly as possible.
With the benefit of input from the open meeting, CENTR proposes to address
the six questions raised in the Commission working Paper and give
additional input to the Commission. The report will be published before 31
March 2000.
The agenda of the meeting will focus on some fundamental issues including
the following:
Issues for the agenda:
1. The consequences of creating .EU from the perspective of the Internet
end user, and the demand for such Domain Names throughout Europe
- Business initiatives and e-commerce developments
- Addressing consumer protection and consumer confusion
- Preventing the need for defensive registrations by current Domain name
holders
2. The legal implications of creating .EU
- Competition issues
- law governing registration agreements with .eu TLD registrants and the
jurisdiction of courts in member states;
- domain name dispute avoidance and online dispute resolution,
- Domain Name warehousing and cybersquatting issues
3. The registration policies appropriate to such a new Top Level Domain
- Neutral second level domains
- Appropriate registrants (EU institutions only, businesses in the EU,
private
persons...)
- Consequence of EU naming policies on ccTLD registries in the 15 member
states
4.The role of the national Internet communities in the process of
determining the creation of such a new TLD.
- Clarification of the consultation and decision making process within the EU
- Clarification of the consultation and decision making process within ICANN
- Next Steps
Meeting Information:
There is no charge for attendance.
The meeting will commence at 9.30 and the open session will finish at 16.00
after which a closed session will take place to review input and draft a
report.
Lunch will be provided.
Venue:
La Maison de l'Europe a la Bibliotheque Solvay
137 Rue Belliard
1040 Brussels
Further information:
For further information about the meeting or CENTR :
Email:secretariat@centr.org
This invitation and the agenda will be posted to the CENTR Website:
URL: http://www.centr.org
Registration
In order to assess numbers for catering and provision of papers, you are
requested to complete the registration form below and return to the CENTR
Secretariat.
***************Registration form******************
To CENTR Secretariat <Michaela@centr.org>
Name(s):
Organisation:
Country:
E-mail Address:
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CENTR
Council of European National Top level domain Registries
Sandford Gate
Sandy Lane West
Oxford OX 4 5LB
Tel: +44 (0)1865 332400
Fax: +44 (0)1865 332401
email <secretariat@centr.org>
URL: http://www.centr.org
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