I’ve made a draft, in agreement with Julf, on behalf of the Coop WG, (Achilleas excused because of his role).

We’d like to share this with you before it goes out to the Coop WG members, and to involve DNS WG,

since the DNS4EU discussion was mainly housed at the DNS WG.

The idea is to ask members if they’d be happy for us to go out with a high level statement on this.

If they say yes, we go ahead and wordsmith it. If they shoot it down, we do not do it.

Looking fwd to your comments and if you like it how we would involve both or all community WGs. Tx!

Desiree

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DNS4EU High Level Statement

1.  Any solution for DNS resolvers should adhere to the Multistakeholder governance principles and respect the principles of distributed and modular nature of the DNS.

(Saying that mandated use of centralised DNS resolvers is not a good principle and should not be only based on legislation). It is questionable if the proposed solution would solve the problem described.

 

2.  The responsibility of well-functioning Internet access including the DNS resolution is with the access providers. We believe it should stay that way.

 

3.  We understand that to be able to minimise some risks when the end user selects a random DNS resolver, a possible and feasible solution is to have the access provider run their local DNS resolvers and/or an additional DNS resolver as a back-up.

 

4.  The EU could allocate DNS4EU funds to the local Internet community and encourage Internet access providers to run their local DNS resolvers. Additionally, the funds can be also used towards the development of open source software for better and affordable DNS resolution services.