Registrar and registry representatives sit on EURid's innovative Requirements Panel, which held its 3rd meeting at EURid's Brussels HQ last week.

I was in Brussels (Belgium) last week for EURid's third "requirements panel" (RP) meeting. The RP is an initiative launched by EURid to work more closely with its registrars. Reacting to criticism that it hadn't done so during the .EU launch, last year EURid invited a few registrars to take an active role in this project.

Seven registrars, including INDOM, were chosen to sit on the panel as representatives of the accredited .EU registrar community.

About once a quarter, the RP meets to discuss those requirements, generally of a technical nature, that would make life easier for .EU registrars. Representatives of EURid's legal, technical and admin departments are there to ensure that the requests made by the registrars; do not go against the rules set for EURid by the European Commission; can fit into, and are not redundant with, the registry's own development programme; are technically feasible for the registry.

At each meeting, based on their own day-to-day experiences with .EU and input from the registrar community, each registrar brings new requirements for consideration. These will then be voted upon by the RP as a whole and given a priority ranking to see which gets looked at first.