domain name for european parliament

> 	I do not think that is a remark to be made without any further
> 	consultation of the people involved.
> A domain established about ONE YEAR ago but without
> ANY reachable nameservers cannot be taken serious,
> with or without consulting anyone.

The registration of the ec.org name was done before any machine 
or software were bought. Try to get several organizations in different
Euopean contries under the umbrella of BRA in sync, so hardware can be 
bought, people allocated, software installed, etc, and you will find out 
that *one year* is nothing. 

Getting the name registered was part of a larger scheme of actions that 
were taken, we didn't want to wait until the last minute before requesting 
registration. It turned out that other factors in the scheme have taken much 
more time then expected, which caused a delay of more than half a year in
getting the infrastructure operational, including the DNS.

What I meant was that it would be very easy for you to either contact
me or Sape so we could explain the situation, instead of assuming
the domain could not be taken seriously.

> 	At the time of registration of the ec.org name, the machines
> 	to run the servers were not yet delivered. The two names were
> 	supplied to the NIC as being "temporary", to be replaced as
> 	soon as the initial part of the research infrastructure was
> 	in place. The first two servers (INESC and Univ. of Twente)
> 	are running now
> It's what you call "running"....

Probably didn't make it clear enough:

       1. The names supplied to the NIC were for temporary use,
          neither of them has, or will in the future have, to do
          anything with ec.org or the NOE infrastructure.

       2. The two servers running are *fileservers* not DNS servers.
          names: cabernet.inesc.pt and cabernet.cs.utwente.nl

       3. The machines to run the DNS servers will be appointed in the
          first week of february, after which the ec.org domain will
          be operational.

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Werner