[dns-wg] DNS4EU?

Paper mentioned above: Consolidation in the DNS resolver market – how much,
how fast, how dangerous? by Roxana Radu
<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Radu%2C+Roxana>and  Michael Hausding
<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Hausding%2C+Michael>

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 6:01 PM Ana Sen <sendrea.anastasia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to add some background that might betray some of the intent of this
> initiative. in the first mention of the DNS4EU in the Cybersecurity
> Strategy published in Dec 2020 a motivation for an EU based resolver to
> reduce dependencies on - note-  a handful of non-EU companies, is marked by
> a footnote informed by this paper
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23738871.2020.1722191>.
> This seems like a great idea for somebody thinking about the following
> terms: how to reduce dependencies on non-EU operated infrastructure, how to
> provide an EU alternative and, add-ons, it has to comply with all the EU
> values and norms. Fast forward, the add ons develop by being added by extra
> technicalities and the CEF2 funding programme has a funding line for this.
>
> Ideally there are stakeholders already in discussions with the EU
> Commissions about what an upcoming funding programme should contain in
> order to fit with the industry and the market needs. I would not be
> surprised if this call for proposals is already targeted at known
> stakeholders, but this could also not be the case. It is also telling that
> this action looks a bit divorced from the rest of the funding line, which
> is dedicated to the cloud federation. In the high level political discourse
> - it's not divorced because it's part of the same narrative of reinforcing
> EU resources vs non-EU, digital autonomy, sovereignty, etc. This aspect is
> also reflected in the call document, which foresees an assessment of
> suppliers to strictly exclude non-EU entities, i.e. non-EU entities are not
> eligible for this call.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Anastasia Șendrea
> (Анастасия Шендря)
>


-- 
Sincerely,

Anastasia Șendrea
(Анастасия Шендря)
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