[registrars] [Fwd: DNR Forum Presentations]

["Paul M. Kane" <Paul.Kane@REACTO.com>]

For Registrars not able to attend the RIPE meeting in Amsterdam, here's
an overview of events at the Domain Name Forum.

Best

Paul

Gabriella Schittek wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> This is a short summary of some of the presentations that were given
> at last weeks DNR Forum in Amsterdam.
>
> Anne Troye-Walker gave a presentation about .eu which can be found
> under http://www.centr.org/docs/presentations/EU-presentation.pdf
>
> The Commission hopes that there will be a regulation about the .eu in
> March 2002, with the implementation process finished at the latest in
> June 2002.
> The Commission will then select and designate a registry, which should
> be a non-for-profit organisation with its principal place of
> establishment within the EU.
> There will be a contractual relationship between the designated
> registry and both the EU Commission and ICANN (following the GAC
> principles). The Registry will register names of undertakings,
> organisations and natural persons, established or resident in the EU.
>
> It was pointed out by the audience, that the Commission should submit
> an application to ICANN for the Top Level Domain .eu, before drafting
> its policy, as apparently .eu was deleted from the ISO -reserve list
> last year. This information is not confirmed.
>
> Rosa Delgado from SITA (Societe Internationale de Telecommunications
> Aeronautique) also gave a presentation about the new Top Level Domain
> .aero. You can find this under
> http://www.centr.org/docs/presentations/aero-presentation.pdf
>
> SITA is the Registry in charge of .aero, designated by ICANN.
> Delgado's presentation made clear, that the rules that will apply for
> .aero are specifically tailored for the air-industry and air-related
> institutions and authorities. Applications are only considered from
> Airlines, Airport authorities, Aerospace industry, Aircraft operators
> etc.
>
> CENTR has sent an invitation to SITA to become an associate member,
> but Delgado has declined the invitation for now, as SITA is not yet
> operational and is not primary considering itself being a TLDRegistry.
>
> Verisign also gave a presentation about Uwho - a new universal whois.
> You can find this under
> http://www.centr.org/docs/presentations/Verisign-dnr.pdf
>
> Verisign has committed the undertaking of a Uwho in an agreement with
> ICANN, but will just provide the mechanism and not the policy.
> The Uwho is facing some tough questions about the implementation,
> amongst these if the Uwho should stay under port 43 (which everyone
> knows), or if it should dare a fresh start under a new port. Another
> issue is, if it should be centralised or decentralised: An aggregation
> of all data into a central repository wouldn't work, not only for
> political reasons (as some countries may not allow it), but also
> technical reasons. Verisign also stated that a centralised view would
> help the usability.
> Verisign would welcome any feedback and comments on this.
>
> Paul Kane also gave a presentation about Uwhois.com, which currently
> interfaces with 6 gTLDs and 290 cc related TLDs and has about 2.5 m
> queries a day. Paul also gave an overview on the legal and political
> background of the whois service in Europe. He pointed out how Uwhois
> were handling data protection issues etc.  and stressed that any WHOIS
> related initiative should  not present WHOIS data in a machine
> readable format to prevent data mining and possible Data Protection
> violations.  If Verisign intend to develop a mechanism for searching
> registry information, it should not be done on Port 43 and should be
> called something other than "WHOIS" to avoid policy confusion else
> regulations may be introduced to prevent disclosure of WHOIS
> information which will be harmful to the Domain Registration industry
> and consumer confidence in E Commerce .  More about this under
> http://www.centr.org/docs/presentations/UWHOIS-PK.pdf
>
> You can find these, and all other presentations that were given under
> http://www.centr.org/docs/
>
> Finally, Jaap Akerhuis accepted Fay Howard's invitation to become vice
> chairman of the DNR Forum. Congratulations, Jaap!
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Gabriella
>
> Gabriella Schittek
> ---------------------------------------
> CENTR
> Communications- and Projects Officer