Position on ITLDs

Classic answer, Daniel - fire back some questions to them.
Dave is right too, they should have a specialist on this.
It might be worth pointing out that the position of RIPE
wrt European TLD registries is quite different from that
of the Internic with all TLD registries.  Neither RIPE
nor any of its WGs nor the NCC are DNS registries in any
sense.  This is something the EC and others may be confused
about, given the role of the RIPE NCC in IP address
registration.

At the same time, RIPE should not use your quite reasonable
reply to mask its views on some of the questions concerning
the proposal from J Postel for new TLDs and registries.  The
DNS WG has strong views on this, backed by RIPE, and these
should be made known.

Regards.

Mike