All, CENTR's new public forum will be launched at the RIPE 35 meeting next week in Amsterdam (morning of Wednesday 23/2/00) At the TLD-WG meeting at RIPE 34, the participants agreed to close the working which had a work plan related mostly to the creation of CENTR and work items which have been taken on by CENTR. Many thanks to Niall O'Reilly for all his work as in Chairing the group. The RIPE Chair Rob Blokzijl, advised he had received much interest from RIPE meeting participants for a forum allowing exchange of views and information from all sides involved in DN registration. Whilst the specific technical working groups such as DNS-WG remain under the wing of RIPE, it was felt that CENTR was the more appropriate organisation to facilitate a new public forum on the general aspects of domain Name registration. RIPE will continue to provide the infrastructure and all registering for the RIPE meeting can also attend the CENTR event. See: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/current/ripe-35/index.html The New forum will be called CENTR Domain Name Registration Forum (DNR-F) and is open not only to those associated with registries but to all with an interest in Domain Name registration. We hope to see you at the first meeting when a work plan and format for the group can be debated and agreed. The first meeting will be co-chaired by Fay Howard, CENTR General Manager (Registry)and Sharon Bush of Netnames (Registrar). One item on the agenda will be to select a permanent chair. It must be stressed that this is not a body with decision making powers to influence registry policy. It is hoped to build dialogue, exchange views and collaborate on ideas for improving service and potentially harmonising registration practices. It is also aimed to provide a European forum for discussion on wider issues effecting DN registration (e.g.ICANN, national and European legislation, creation .EU TLD) The first meeting aims primarily to establish the new forum in accordance with the views of those involved. Some potential work topics have been suggested after the draft agenda in order to form a work plan. These will also be placed on the CENTR website as well as the RIPE Meeting pages. See: http://www.centr.org Hope to see you in Amsterdam. Fay Howard ******************************************* Draft Agenda for First Meeting: 1.Welcome and Introductions 2. Introduction from CENTR General Manager and review of TLD-WG final meeting 3. Presentation on CENTR and it's current activities (including update from CENTR Technical Officer on CENTR Technical Meeting 21/2 ) 4.Setting up the DNR Forum: Permanent Chair Format for work (smaller groups?) Mailing lists 5. Establishing a Work plan (See possible subjects above) 6. Registry Information Presentation (to be announced)Possible Subject for work plan Registry/Registrar and Registry/Registrant Contracts Liaison with and Update from CENTR legal working Group Registration/Renewal Procedure Input from both sides on creating a good practice in some areas Registry presentations on their procedures for consultation in the local community Standardisation of Registration Template Merits of WIPO recommendation XML based template Data protection Use of zone file data Local legislation Creation of .EU TLD Technical Issues Investigate potential areas of collaborative work Liaison with CENTR Technical Group and RIPE DNS-WG *********************************************************** Fay Howard CENTR General Manager (Council of European Nation Top level domain Registries) email: <faycentr.org> Sandford Gate tel: +44 1865 332400 Sandy Lane West direct: +44 1865 332405 Oxford, OX4 5LB fax: +44 1865 332401 United Kigdom -------- Logged at Wed Apr 5 13:14:40 CEST 2000 ---------