TLD Working Group

First CENTR DNR Forum

Welcome and Introductions.

DNR-F launched to replace RIPE TLD-WG and will deal with primarily 
non-technical issues at first.
Open to all with interest in Domain Name Registration.
First meeting co-chaired by Fay Howard representing the registries and 
Sharon Bush representing the registrars.
Approximately 50 participants, of which 55% were from registries, 40% from 
registrars and 5% from other backgrounds.

CENTR Presentation

Fay Howard and Kevin Meynell gave a presentation on current CENTR activities:
CENTR was formed as a project of RIPE NCC in 1998 and is one a separate 
legal entitity in the UK with 28 members from ccTLD registries in Europe 
and beyond
Current activities include:
Provision of a political and policy forum (General Assembly) where managers 
of registries exchange information, debate current issues and agree policy 
positions.
The new Legal Forum allows lawyers from member registries to addressing 
legal issues of ccTLDs and collaborate on recommending good practice and 
drafting legal documents
The Technical Forum allows technical staff to exchange information, seek 
solutions on technical problems and collaborate on technical projects of 
benefit to all member registries. At a technical workshop held 21/2, a 
revised work plan had been agreed and the template for a fact-finding 
questionnaire on registry practices in technical areas.

New Public DNR-Forum

Round Up of Outstanding Actions From RIPE TLD-WG Chair, Niall O<92>Reilly.
The minutes from the previous TLD-WG meeting are still outstanding but will 
be taken care of as soon as possible.
There are a number of ccTLDs who are still using the RIPE database to store 
their WHOIS
information. There will be an action plan by 31 March, with a view to 
removal of all objects by 30 June. CENTR to assist.

Setting Up The DNR-Forum

Physical meetings to coincide with existing RIPE meetings.
Fay Howard and Sharon Bush to co-chair the next meeting in Budapest, where 
the situation will be reviewed.

Work Plan

Some suggestions for a work plan were presented and debated with the 
following conclusions:

CENTR to make a public mailing list DNR-Forum@lists.centr.org, which will 
include the participants of old TLD-WG meetings and current participants of 
new DNR-Forum.

Registry contracts with registrants and registrars to be readdressed after 
CENTR has finished collating data on current best practices using a CENTR 
questionnaire.

Registration Template Task Force set up to examine current practices, 
requirements and draft a paper for the next meeting containing 
recommendations for change.
Participants: Sharon Bush, NetNames
Michaela Pivesso, CENTR
Steven Dyer, CentralNic
Yehavi Bourvine, ISOC-IL
Sabine Dolderer, DENIC

Data Protection Task Force set up to examine zone file access and draft a 
paper documenting the potential uses (e.g. Statistics, host count, searching).

Participants: Sharon Bush, NetNames
Peter Koch, Universitt Bielefeld
Clive Feather, Demon Internet Ltd
Olivier Guillard, AFNIC
Michaela Pivesso, CENTR

CENTR to design a <91>What<92>s New<92> website to announce changes in 
registry
policy on registration and renewals.

Registry Presentations

AFNIC (France) and DENIC (Germany) gave a comparative detailed presentation 
which highlighted their individual registration policies and registry history.
Fay Howard to find two different registries who will give similar 
presentations during the next DNR-Forum in Budapest in May 2000.

Creation of .EU TLD

Fay Howard gave a summary of the CENTR press release and urged the 
participants to comment on the European Commission<92>s Working Paper:
http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/internetpoliciessite/doteu/workdocen.html