DNS Top Level Domain Questionnaire

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> My 2 cents:
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> I think the WG should re-ask itself what the purpose of the exercise
> was.  Was it to let TLD admins see what others do?  If yes, circulate

This was indeed the goal, as stated in the last mod of the draft
minutes who nobody has yet objected about:

  TLD administrators are increasingly contacted by multinational company
  which wants to create a bunch of domains in different countries.
  Different countries have different policies and procedures. The
  requestor often challenge the TLD aministrator with questions about
  differences in naming and registration policies.
  
  A European TLD forum might be useful to have a better understanding of
  the matter.  The first move should be to collect how TLD management is
  done over Europe. As a starting point the working group decided to set
  up a questionnaire.
  
  The main reason to collect such information is to help the TLD
  administrators in their task by knowing the guidelines followed by
  other countries. If they wish TLD administrators have then the
  possibility to keep themselves aligned to the mean behaviour (best
  current practice?), to reduce disputes about registration requests.
  
    During the meeting Guy Davies (GD) started collecting a lot of
    proposed questions. He will organise the questionnaire and submit it
    to the list for review and later send it to the European TLD admins.
  
    [Action on GD]


> the results among the respondents and give it a wider audience (the WG)
> later on, if all respondents agree. 

That is the useful thing to do, at least initially.

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> If the goal was to collect information for the information of, potential
> registrants then keeping it confidential is somewhat counterproductive. 
> Maybe you want to publishjust part of the responses. 

That wasn't discussed at the WG meeting. I think that, after we have a
clearer picture of what TLD admins do, we can discuss if and how
publish the results or parts of them. Keeping everything confidential
as well as publishing everything have different pros and cons which can
properly judged only by TLD admins. I would leave this issue for further
discussion.

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> Daniel
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Blasco

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