Hi Hank, all,

I don’t have a lot that I can add to what Nick and Stephane have already posted. But I will note that the European Commission has scheduled one of the regular meetings of its High Level Group on Internet Governance (HLIG) for this Wednesday; portions of those meeting agendas are generally open to industry stakeholders, and Wednesday’s agenda includes an update on DNS4EU.

The information page for the HLIG is here:
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupId=2450&fromMeetings=true&meetingId=23922

It’s not clear whether registration for the meeting is still open at this point, but minutes are published publicly, and the RIPE NCC can report back to this working group if there are any updates of note.

Best regards,
Chris

On 8 Nov 2021, at 14:15, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 07:12:38AM +0200,
Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote
a message of 34 lines which said:

  Does anyone have further insight into the European initiative
  known as DNS4EU?

There is very little actual information published on this project.

According to some rumors, it would be a public DNS resolver, with
built-in censorship (for the laws of 27 countries).

dns4eu.eu has been registered by DG Connect
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_Communications_Networks,_Content_and_Technology>