iTLDs

Daniel, As public policy officials in DG XIII who have liaison responsibilities with the US State Department who are discussing problems with DNS policy issues (e.g., see http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/acicip.html and http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/intellec.html), they have a interest in this topic to formulate a cohesive European position. DNS issues are impacting public interests especially within an intellectual property context. For one example of domain name hijacking, see the attached message. IMHO, I think it might be in RIPE's interest to cooperate a little more with them since the issues are clearly impacting outside a normal "Net" technical context. Bob