Yes there is truth to the statement. The European Commission - or more
specifically the Information Society Directorate-General of the EU has
made it very clear to ICANN that they either get .eu listed or else it's
bye bye USG root servers. You might want to find the EU contact for
this a Mr. Per Haugaard and find out more from him.
Regards
Joe Baptista
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Joseph Friedman wrote:
> Is there any truth to the rumor that the European Union is threatning to
> start their own root servers if ICANN does not grant them a .EU?
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> --Joseph
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