Re: Position on ITLDs

Classic answer, Daniel - fire back some questions to them. Dave is right too, they should have a specialist on this. It might be worth pointing out that the position of RIPE wrt European TLD registries is quite different from that of the Internic with all TLD registries. Neither RIPE nor any of its WGs nor the NCC are DNS registries in any sense. This is something the EC and others may be confused about, given the role of the RIPE NCC in IP address registration. At the same time, RIPE should not use your quite reasonable reply to mask its views on some of the questions concerning the proposal from J Postel for new TLDs and registries. The DNS WG has strong views on this, backed by RIPE, and these should be made known. Regards. Mike