Summary RIPE 32 TLD-WG

["Niall O'Reilly" <]

                          RIPE 32: TLD-WG Summary

      Place: Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      Date: 28 January 1999
      Chair: Niall O'Reilly
      Scribe: Hans Niklasson

      Participants: 23
      ccTLD Registries represented: 8

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      Current Actions

           Overdue minutes
           Status of whois referral mechanism
           All closed

      Workplan

           Re-organisation needed
           Some areas to be merged
           Explicit reference to liaison DNS-WG
           NIC FR directory project: demo at Vienna

      Whois referral

           Presentation by Joćo Damas
           Current implementation is just what is needed

      RIPE CENTR

           Progress update from Fay Howard
           CENTR ExCo now elected
           CENTR to incorporate in near future
           RIPE CENTR project to terminate by 30 June 1999

      ICANN/DNSO

           Fay Howard presented current status
           Fresh approach from IE Registry
           ICANN pressing for DNSO proposal by 5 Feb 1999

      Questions

           Relationship RIPE & TLD-WG <--> CENTR

      New Actions

           TLD-32.1 [Chair]
                Update Workplan
           TLD-32.2 [Chair]
                Determine DNS-SEC plans and need for support from
                DNS-WG
           TLD-32.3 [Chair]
                Advise DB-WG of number of registries planning to use
                RIPE whois code
           TLD-32.4 [Philippe Renaut]
                Present NIC-FR directory work at Vienna
           TLD-32.5 [Mike Norris]
                Co-ordinate review of RIPE-152

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