CENTR Avoiding

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CENTRAvoiding shark attacks

• ICANN Cape Town, wwTLD meeting, Cape Town, South
  Africa
• November 30, 2004

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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

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What is CENTR?

• Council of European National Top Level Domain
  Registries
• Forum for TLD managers
• Primarily ccTLDs (but gTLDs )
• Mainly European (but members from 5 continents)

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CENTRs 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

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CENTRs Membership

• 3 Members categories
• Full Members
• Associate Members
• Observers
• Admission as new Member only with the consent of
  the simple majority of the Members

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CENTRs Membership
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CENTRs 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 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 (.?)
• AFNIC France (.fr), Mayotte (.yt), Reunion (.re),
  St. Pierre Miquelon (.pm), Wallis Futuna Is.
  (.wf )
• GibNet Gibraltar (.gi)
• GR-Hostmaster Greece (.gr)
• Island Networks Guernsey (.gg), Jersey (.je)
• CHIP Hungary (.hu)
• IEDR Ireland (.ie)

• LITNET NOC Lithuania (.lt)
• RESTENA DNS-LU Luxembourg (.lu)
• NIC Malta Malta (.mt)
• NIC-Mexico Mexico (.mx)
• MoldData 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)

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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

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Focus on

• ccNSO process
• IANA functions
• ITU-WSIS-WGIG
• eu implementation plan

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Focus on

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

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Future Meetings

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

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CENTRs 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

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Questions?
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Thanks for your attention

• Giovanni Seppia
• CENTR General Manager
• giovanni_at_centr.org