Re: [wg-c] Commission Working paper on the creation of .EU

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

Exactly right.

And if ICANN plans to support non-English language TLDs (as well as
ccTLDs), I believe "EU" could be taken to mean  "Etats-Unis" or "The United
States" en Français. Definitely a name-space collision.

Bill Semich
.NU Domain

At 10:07 AM 2/3/00 -0500, Joseph Friedman wrote:
>No .EU should be created.  .XX is reserved for the ISO country code list.
>
>--Joseph
>
>On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Keith Gymer wrote:
>
>> The European Commission Working paper on the creation of the .EU Internet
>> top level domain, dated 2nd February, 2000 is available at:
>> http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg13/index.htm
>> 
>> It is open for public comment for 6 weeks - ie apparently until 15 March
>> 2000
>> 
>> The paper specifically seeks answers to six key questions:
>> 
>> Question 1: Please comment on the above outline of the delegation of the
.EU
>> TLD to a Registration organisation: the Registry. Are there alternative
>> models for
>> the Registry organisation that should be considered?
>> 
>> Question 2: What should be the main criteria for the .EU Registry's
>> registration policies?
>> How should the registration policy be developed and implemented? By the
>> Registry organisation, by a distinct consultative body or by the European
>> Commission
>> itself?
>> 
>> Question 3: Would it be appropriate to apply the WIPO disputes and
trademark
>> policies as reflected in their May 1999 Report to the .EU Domain, or are
>> there alternative solutions to these issues within the European Union?
>> Might there be a specific role for the Office for the Harmonisation of the
>> Internal Market in Alicante in this context?
>> 
>> Question 4: To what extent might a more constraining instrument in the
>> European Union or in WIPO reinforce protection of names and marks in the
>> DNS, in
>> addition to alternative dispute resolution? In that case which
categories of
>> names
>> should be protected and how should they be determined?
>> 
>> Question 5: Do potential business users, including small and medium sized
>> enterprises have any suggestions as to how the .EU domain might be managed
>> in order to
>> optimise its contribution to the development of electronic commerce in
>> Europe?
>> 
>> Question 6: Are there any other considerations that should be taken into
>> account about the relationships between the proposed .EU Registry and the
>> national
>> ccTLD Registries in the Member States?
>> 
>> 
>> Keith Gymer
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