CENTR Public Forum at RIPE (replacing TLD-WG)

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
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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

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Fay Howard
CENTR General Manager

(Council of European Nation Top level domain Registries)

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