ISOC Meeting Amsterdam 14 December 2002

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ISOC Meeting Amsterdam14 December 2002
MEDEFs Position on Internet Governance Issues

• Catherine Gabay
• Director Innovation, Research New
  Technologies
• MEDEF

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MEDEF An association under Frances 1901 law,
the French Business Confederation is responsible
for conducting any research and actions in the
mutual interests of business

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• MEDEF, Mouvement des Entreprises de France,
• is the French Business Confederation.
• It represents over 750 000 companies of all sizes
  and in all sectors of business (industry, trade
  and services)
• It is responsible for conducting any research and
  actions in the mutual interests of business.

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MEDEFInnovation, Research and New Technologies
Department

• Some of the topics addressed
• e-business eEurope 2005, eFrance 2005,
  e-commerce, cybersecurity, e-administration,
  Internet domain names and governance.
• Information, Computing and Communication
  Technologies telecommunications and audiovisual
  regulation, Information systems security.
• Innovation Measures to increase the innovation
  level in businesses.
• Research incentives to raise the research
  level, cooperation between private and public
  research, relationship with education.
• Intellectual Property Protection European and
  Community patents, new technologies patents,
  trademarks

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MEDEFs interest in Internet governance

• MEDEFs members are affected by ICANN policies
  concerning domain names, generic and country code
  domain names, IP addresses, the architecture of
  the DNS, security, etc.
• MEDEFs members use Internet to conduct
  business.
• They are customers of providers of connectivity,
  domain names, IP addresses, protocols and other
  services related to electronic commerce in its
  broad sense.
• Their interests are
• - technical Internet stability, reliability
  and security
• - as well as geopolitical Frances and
  Europes positions in the global Information
  Society (eEurope 2005, eFrance 2005)

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MEDEFs interest in Internet governance

• MEDEF focuses on matters that are essential to
  foster the use and the security of the electronic
  business
• Security and stability of the Internet
• Visibility on the net
• Intellectual Property protection
• Quality of registration services
• Businesss users representation

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Security and Stability of the Internet ICANN
reform

• ICANN reform must be a positive and pragmatic
  evolution,
• not a revolution.
• - ICANN 2 must remain a private sector
  organization, with a policy development process
  more transparent and which represents adequately
  the business users.
• - ICANN 2 should continue its original mandate
  in line with the White paper principles
  stability,competition, coordination implying a
  base of private players in a growing process,
  adequate representation by players, particularly
  in geographical diversity.

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Security and Stability of the Internet ICANN
reform

• - ICANN 2 should be appropriately funded to
  carry out its mission for the benefit of the
  global Internet community.
• - A better and more efficient participation of
  governments is desirable.
• More liaison (participation in discussions and
  interactions) of the GAC (Governmental Advisory
  Committee) with the Business Constituency.
• - The creation of the ccNSO should not mean that
  business users cannot be heard on cctld global
  policy issues.
• - The MEDEF supports the creation of committees
  on key issues (security, root server operation,
  etc.).

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Security and Stability of the Internet a safe,
reliable and permanent domain name service

• - The domain name itself is a small part of the
  investment to put up a web site. But once in
  place, it becomes a critical resource and its
  stability and reliability are critical to the web
  site.
• - Continuity of service is a key element of
  confidence for business users
• - Service reliability and Service recovery
  procedures for technical as well as financial
  problems (registrys bankruptcy for instance)

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Security and Stability of the Internet
International domain names

• Risks
• - IDN standards are not sufficient to avoid
  collisions and confusion
• - Cybersquatting
• - Geographical blocks creation
• Request
• ICANN and IETF to tackle this issue
• ICANN to inform the Internet community of the
  risks of IDN

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Visibility on the net Businesses, Countries

• Useful domain names
• Creation of new gtlds based on usefulness,
  Intellectual Property safety and proof-of-concept
• Visibility is one of the keys to a useful dot EU
  
• First level on dot EU for businesses in order to
  provide them with an attractive shop window at
  the European level.
• Visibility of France and Europe on the net
• eEurope 2005, eFrance 2005.

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Intellectual Property Protection

• Protection against cybersquatting
• sunrise process for trademark holders, dispute
  resolution policy, accurate and current WHOIS
  data information
• ICANN to make usage of pragmatism and wisdom when
  creating new gtlds
• - ICANN to tackle the potential IP issues
  deriving from IDN
• Expected positive side effect of domain name
  usage by SMEs in France and Europe
• Increasing their awareness of intellectual
  property issues and notably the community
  trademark.

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Quality of registration services

• Quality of registration services and limitation
  of fraudulent actions
• should derive from an effectively competitive
  registration market.
• Encouraging the use of best practices, in gtlds
  and cctlds alike.
• - ICANN to actually enforce the contracts with
  registries or registrars, in case of fraudulent
  practice.
• Domain name portability Protection against
  domain name slamming (current transfers issue in
  gTLDs).
• Predictibility in registration services
  (transfers, deletes, )
• - A quick recovery mechanism for registries

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Business users voice

• - Business users are the largest user group of
  domain names.
• - The business interests must be represented and
  heard for policy matters that affect them (gtlds,
  cctlds, IP addresses).
• - The business point of view must be heard so
  that businesses can benefit from a favorable
  Internet resources management.

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Business users voice

• MEDEF must be able to represent the interest of
  its members,
• French businesses, for ICANN policy making, in
  the new ICANN.
• MEDEF fears a lowering of the business users
  voice in ICANN 2.
• Policy must be developped in a transparent
  bottom-up process from the stakeholders
  proposals.
• In the case of ccTLD global policies, a precise
  process must be developped in the ccNSO to allow
  effective participation of the business users.
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Thank you for your attention

• Any Questions ?  
• email cgabay_at_medef.fr