CENTR workshop for ccTLD Managers

27 Aug 1998

      Dear ccTLD Managers,

As previously announced, a CENTR workshop is to be held for managers of TLD 
registries in Edinburgh 21 September 1998.

The meeting is schedule between 10.00 and 17.00 and will take place at The 
University of Edinburgh, George Square Complex, William Robertson Building, 
Edinburgh, Scotland.

As with the technical workshop, the aim of the managerial workshop will be to 
encourage discussion and exchange of experiences. Discussion leaders for each 
topic will give presentations and then open the debate to all participants.

Four proposed topics are listed below.

If you manage a ccTLD and wish to attend, please reply completing the template 
at the end of this email.
Places are restricted to 26 and so initially we must limit participation to 
one person per TLD.  Preference will be given to CENTR participants should 
applications exceed 26.

Developing local TLD policy and naming rules: 

Many ccTLD are at some stage in the process of restructuring their registry 
and/or reviewing their current naming policy example being:
- Creation of a new organization to replace work done on a voluntary basis by 
  a university or academic network.
- Introduction of charges for registering domain names or review of existing
  charging model. 
- Review of naming policy and naming restriction (liberal stance of
  first-come-first-served versus strict naming policy)
- Government requirement 
Whatever changes are envisaged, it is often necessary to consult with the 
local networking community/service providers and even the general internet 
using public within the country.
The participants will see examples of how this process has been handled in 
some countries followed by open discussion on how to manage consultation and 
to "sell" the changes to the public.

Possible areas of harmonization for ccTLDs

There are many organizations keen to document the practices of TLD registries 
around the world and the CENTR project has been collecting information on the 
participating ccTLDs.
There is often talk of 'best practice' and even standardization of ccTLD rules 
and policies.  With one of the key requirements of ccTLDs being autonomy and 
with the diversity of economies, legal systems and cultures, is there any room 
for harmonization?

This session will examine information gathered in accordance with the CENTR 
template and also discuss areas where some level of harmonization may be 
achieved. Example might be who-is database policy, quality, pricing structure.

Pooling Resources and Joint Funding

One of the roles of the established CENTR should be to coordinate or 
commission projects on behalf of members.  Pooling of resources or sharing the 
cost of software developments for example would be a significant benefit of 
CENTR membership.

This item relates also to discussion at the technical workshop at which there 
was general agreement that the development of BIND Software is very important 
and should be supported by ccTLDs. A short presentation will be given by David 
Conrad of Internet Software Consortium on how CENTR members, as funders, could 
have input into the direction that new  BIND developments take.

Discussion will then be opened to identify other areas where CENTR can 
initiate work or coordinate the pooling of ideas/manpower on behalf of its 
members.

Who-is Policy

There has already been some debate on the issue of acceptable use of who-is 
database information. The session will begin with a presentation on the 
problems of confidentiality, misuse and possible solutions.  There will also 
be a presentation on possible legitimate and acceptable use of who-is data 
before
the debate is opened up to the participants.

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