<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good morning,<div class="">Some of you may have already seen this in the cooperation wg mailing list but then again, some may not, so here it goes.</div><div class="">We also encourage anyone with opinions on the matter to express them and/or contribute to the statement</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Joao Damas</div><div class="">For the dns-wg chairs</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=================================================================================</div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);" class="">From: Desiree Miloshevic <<a href="mailto:dmiloshevic@donuts.email" class="">dmiloshevic@donuts.email</a>></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);" class="">To: <a href="mailto:cooperation-wg@ripe.net" class="">cooperation-wg@ripe.net</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear members, dear all</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Further to the RIPE NCC’s summary of the DNS4EU Open House discussion posted bellow,</div><div class="">and further to your witnessing of our our earlier 'transparent wordsmithing consultation' with other RIPE - WG Chairs </div><div class=""><div class="">I’d like to propose the following high level statement draft for your consideration. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Julf and myself, as Co-Chairs are in agreement with this draft statement and Achilleas had excused himself due to his role at the EC.</div><div class="">We’d like to know if there is some support from members for having a RIPE community response on this proposal?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would really appreciate your feedback or any comments you’d wish to make.</div><div class="">Lastly we'd appreciate if the DNS WG Co-chairs would consider sharing this draft with their members too, since </div><div class="">most of the DNS4EU discussion is taking place on that list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks for your consideration and the feedback,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Desiree</div><div class="">--</div><div class=""><span class="">Coop WG Co-Chair</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-d21a0764-7fff-c4f8-6b21-7c26cee28776" class="">Proposed DNS4EU RIPE community statement</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RIPE community believes that governance of the DNS resolution chain, which is such an important element of everybody's Internet connectivity, should involve all stakeholders and can not solely rely on legislation and regulatory oversight.</span></div></li></ol><ol start="2" class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RIPE Community hopes that any winning bidder will adhere to what we see as a fundamental property of the Internet, with a diverse and competitive landscape, anchored on the principles of multistakeholder Internet governance.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""><br class=""></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RIPE Community believes that the responsibility of well-functioning Internet access including the DNS resolution is with the access providers. We believe it should stay that way.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""><br class=""></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We understand that to be able to minimise some risks when the end user selects a random DNS resolver, a possible and feasible solution is to have the access provider run their local DNS resolvers and/or an additional DNS resolver as a back-up.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""><br class=""></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We hope that the EU could allocate DNS4EU funds to the local Internet community and encourage Internet access providers to run their local DNS resolvers. Additionally, the funds can be also used towards the development of open source software for better and affordable DNS resolution services.</span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div></li></ol></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>