CENTR Avoiding shark attacks ICANN Cape Town ww

CENTR Avoiding “shark attacks”… ICANN Cape Town, ww. TLD meeting, Cape Town, South Africa November 30, 2004

If you spot a shark… • Stay calm, as sudden movements may attract a shark • Swim calmly and rhythmically back to land or boat • Keep the shark in sight, particularly if you are swimming underwater. In most shark attacks, the victim did not see the shark. Sharks seem to shy away from people who look directly at them • If all else fails, try to look prepared to fight back

What is CENTR? • Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries • Forum for TLD managers – Primarily cc. TLDs (but g. TLDs ) – Mainly European (but members from 5 continents)

CENTR’s office relocation • From September 1, 2004, CENTR offices are based in Brussels • Main targets of this change: – Closer contacts with the European institutions – Enlarging our role in the Internet industry – Improve the work efficiency

CENTR’s Membership • 3 Members categories – Full Members – Associate Members – Observers • Admission as new Member only with the consent of the simple majority of the Members

CENTR’s Membership

CENTR’s Membership • • • • • • • AFGNIC Afghanistan (. af) STA Andorra (. ad) ISOC. AM Armenia (. am) NIC. AC Ascension Is. (. ac), Diego Garcia (. io), St Helena (. sh) NIC. AT Austria (. at) DNS Belgium (. be) Digital Systems Bulgaria (. bg) CIRA Canada (. ca) CARNet Croatia (. hr) UCY-DNS Cyprus (. cy) CZ. NIC Czech Republic (. cz) DENIC Germany (. de) FICORA Finland (. fi) AFNIC France (. fr), Mayotte (. yt), Reunion (. re), St. Pierre & Miquelon (. pm), Wallis & Futuna Is. (. wf ) Gib. Net Gibraltar (. gi) GR-Hostmaster Greece (. gr) Island Networks Guernsey (. gg), Jersey (. je) CHIP Hungary (. hu) IEDR Ireland (. ie) IPM Iran (. ir); ISNIC Iceland (. is) ISOC-IL Israel (. il) IT-NIC Italy (. it) JPRS Japan (. jp); NIC. LY Libya (. ly) • LITNET NOC Lithuania (. lt) • RESTENA DNS-LU Luxembourg (. lu) • NIC Malta (. mt) • NIC-Mexico (. mx) • Mold. Data Moldova (. md) • SIDN Netherlands (. nl) • ISOCNZ New Zealand (. nz) • NORID Norway (. no), Bouvet Is. (. bv), Svalbard & Jan Mayen Is. (. sj) • Palestinian Registry Palestine (. ps) • NASK Poland (. pl) • FCCNPortugal (. pt) • RNC Romania (. ro) • Ros-NIIROS Russia (. ru) • RED. ES Spain (. es); • ARNES Slovenia (. si) • IIS Sweden (. se) • SWITCH Switzerland (. ch), Lichtenstein (. li) • SITA (. aero) • Nominet UK United Kingdom (. uk) • Neu. Star United States of America (. us) • Veri. Sign (. com, . net) • Afilias (. info) • Public Interest Registry (. org)

Benefits of diverse participation • CENTR values participation from many different registries – Western and Eastern Europe, Americas, Asia, Oceania – Different regulatory regimes, Internet community expectations, use of domain names etc. – Different challenges is ensuring stable DNS/Internet • Provides added value because – Brings different perspectives to discussion – Helps to define guidelines and best practices that benefit everyone – Comes to agreed opinions on certain aspects of the international arena

Focus on • cc. NSO process • IANA functions • ITU-WSIS-WGIG • “eu” implementation plan

Focus on • Risk management • Surveys update • IDNs website • Domain Name Wire

Future Meetings • General Assemblies 2005 -2006 – – – 25 th CENTR General Assembly, 22 -23 Feb, Brussels, Belgium 26 th CENTR General Assembly, 16 -17 June, Trondheim, Norway 27 th CENTR General Assembly, 29 -30 Sept, Moscow, Russia 28 th CENTR General Assembly, 21 -22 Nov, Amsterdam, Netherlands 29 th CENTR General Assembly, 2 -3 March 2006, Brussels, Belgium 30 th CENTR General Assembly, 25 -26 May 2006, Madrid, Spain • Workshops – 7 th Administrative Workshop, 2005, February 2, 2005, Vienna, Austria – 18 th Legal & Regulatory Workshop, February 2, 2005, Vienna, Austria – 13 th Technical Workshop, 21 Feb, 2005, Brussels, Belgium

CENTR’s long term vision • Expanding the dialogue among registries, governments and international bodies • Improving the best practices exchange among registries • Making the Internet a reliable, stable and responsible structure • Working close to all the Internet-related organisations • Acknowledging the competences and expertise of each entity to provide the Internet with added values

Questions?

Thanks for your attention Giovanni Seppia CENTR General Manager giovanni@centr. org