MEDEF

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MEDEFs View on Dot EU

• Domain Day 5 novembre 2002 Palazzo Stelline
  Milano
• Catherine GABAY Director Innovation and
  Research - Medef

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MEDEF

•  MEDEF, the French Business Confederation,
  represents over 750 000 companies of all sizes
  and in all sectors of business (industry, trade
  and services).
• 85 business federations combining 600 business
  associations, each covering companies in the same
  business sector 
• 165 associations or provincial MEDEFs
  representing companies at local, departmental and
  regional levels
• MEDEF is also  
• 2000 business people who work in discussion and
  action groups and work groups 
• 10.000 employers
• 35.000 employers representatives

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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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MEDEFs duties are

• Ø      to decide and make known the business
  point of view on subjects directly or indirectly
  concerning businesses, so that they can benefit
  from a favourable legal and regulatory
  environment
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• Ø      to promote the thinking of business and
  broadcast it throughout all components of
  society 
• Ø      to favour the ends of the business
  community, its energy and successes, and the
  progress of management in a global economy 

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MEDEFs duties are

• Ø      to express business peoples desire for
  progress and the convictions that they draw from
  their national and international experience on
  the general conditions of economic and social
  progress
• Ø      to contribute to a constructive social
  dialogue between the parties in businesses and
  their professional organisations 
• Ø      to strive to adapt the different systems
  of social protection to economic and demographic
  change

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MEDEFs Innovation and Research Department

• Some of the topics addressed
• E-business e-commerce, cyber-security,
  e-administration and businesses, economic
  intelligence, Internet domain names and
  management issues.
• Information, Computing and Communication
  Technologies telecommunications and audiovisual
  regulation, Information systems security.
• Innovation Measures to increase the innovation
  level notably in SMEs
• Research cooperation between private and
  public research, 6th PCRD, measures necessary to
  boost research level in France, relationship with
  education.
• Intellectual Property Protection European and
  Community patents, Software patent, trademarks

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MEDEFs view on dot EU

• Background
• MEDEF began to express business expectations on
  the EU domain name since the European Commission
  consultation in February 2000
• MEDEF organized in June 2001 a forum dedicated to
  the dot EU

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MEDEFs view on dot EU

• MEDEF defends the creation of a dot EU which
  meets business needs
• SECURITY and CONFIDENCE of businesses and
  consumers on the Internet and in e-commerce
  usage
• VISIBILITY on the web
• Business visibility First level dedicated to
  businesses. The dot EU must provide businesses an
  attractive shop window at the European level
• European Visibility on Internet

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SECURITY

• A safe, reliable and permanent service
• Service reliability and Service recovery
  procedures In the case of technical problems as
  well in the case of any financial problems
  (recovery procedures in the case of the dot EU
  registrys bankruptcy for example)
• Continuity of service is a key element of
  confidence for business users

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CONFIDENCE

• Business users voice
• The business interests must be represented in the
  registry structure (in a userss college for
  instance)
• Business users consultation in the case of dot
  EU policy changes

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CONFIDENCE

• Enhancing confidence in e-commerce
• Promoting the EU e-commerce, date privacy and
  consumer protection directives
• Encouraging the use of alternative dispute
  resolution methods for e-commerce

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CONFIDENCE

• Intellectual Property Protection
• Protection against cybersquatting sunrise
  process for trademark holders, dispute resolution
  policy, checking of applicants rights of for a
  dot EU domain name
• Expected positive side effect Increasing SMEs
  awareness of intellectual property issues and
  notably the community trademark.

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CONFIDENCE

• Intellectual Property Protection
• Maintenance of an up-to-date and accurate
  registration database for all dot EU
  registrations
• A WHOIS database conform to EU data protection law

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CONFIDENCE

• An effectively competitive registration
• A competitive dot EU registration business
  encouraging the use of best practices
• Protection against domain name slamming (current
  transfers issue in gTLDs)

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VISIBILITY

• A useful and visible domain name
• Visibility is the key First level on dot EU for
  businesses
• Dot EU must be a successful domain name (virtuous
  circle) not to be used only for defensive
  registration of trademarks

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VISIBILITY

• Europes presence on the web
• Be a shop window on the European market for
  businesses.
• Make a possible link with the Euro currency
• Promote the dot EU to boost SMEs presence on the
  Web
• Enhance Europes credibility in Internet
  management issues (ICANN)

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Thank you for your attention.Any Questions ?