I disagree with Roberto here. As a European national and as a European
company, we regard the ability to compete freely and fairly across Europe to
be our right. If that right is restricted by national policies, i.e. by
restrictive local NIC policies, then we regard that as a highest priority.
While we also regard the situation whereby NSI controls access to the
.com/.net/.org domains as an important competition matter, we regard the
situation in our own backyard as equally important.
Ivan
Roberto wrote:
> In principle, it is exactly the same, but not in practice.
>
> The scope is different, and therefore the priorities are different.
>
> As the old (italian) saying goes, Rome was not built in one day.
> This means that if we proceed step by step, we should first assess the
> larger problem, i.e. the problem of a monopolistic business
> based outside
> Europe operating commercially in Europe, and therefore
> getting financial
> resources out from Europe. If this fails to happen, there
> will be no point
> in proceeding further with less important cases, which anyhow
> are referred
> to policies under the control of the Member states (more or less).
>
> This said, I believe that the European national TLDs will be
> unter pressure
> to go to a competitive model (as the Telsos did in the past) and that
> therefore "eventually" competition will be allowed in the
> ccTLDs, but I
> share DG IV's POV that economically and politically NSI's monopoly in
> "general purpose" (not nationally restricted) TLDs is a
> higher priority.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
>
> P.S.: this answer will not reach Domain Policy readers, as usual
>
