MEDEFs View on Dot EU Domain Day – 5 novembre 2002 – Palazzo Stelline – Milano Catherine GABAY – Director Innovation and Research - Medef

MEDEF’s View on Dot EU

Domain Day – 5 novembre 2002 – Palazzo Stelline – Milano

Catherine GABAY – Director Innovation and Research - Medef

Domain Day 5 novembre 2002Palazzo Stelline

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MEDEF 's view on dot EU Catherine Gabay, Director Innovation and Research

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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 France’s 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’s duties are : 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

to promote the thinking of business and

broadcast it throughout all components of society

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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MEDEF’s duties are : to express business people’s desire for

progress and the convictions that they draw from their national and international experience on the general conditions of economic and social progress

to contribute to a constructive social dialogue between the parties in businesses and their professional organisations

to strive to adapt the different systems of social protection to economic and demographic change


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MEDEF’s 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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MEDEF’s 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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MEDEF’s 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 registry’s 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 users’s 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 applicant’s 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

Europe’s 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 Europe’s credibility in Internet management issues (ICANN)

Thank you for your attention.Any Questions ?

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MEDEFs View on Dot EU Domain Day – 5 novembre 2002 – Palazzo Stelline – Milano Catherine GABAY – Director Innovation and Research - Medef