Next week I'm back in Brussels at .EU registry EURid's headquarters for a day. It's the fourth .EU Requirements Panel (RP) meeting, where representatives from 7 registrars meet with EURid staff to work on improving .EU.
The panel looks at "requirements" and sorts them in order of priority so that EURid's development team can then include them in their schedule. I consider the RP a fine example of a registry working in an intelligent manner to improve itself and its product (.EU in this case) by involving its sales network (the registrars).
The RP is a EURid initiative, and EURid controls it. But having already taken part in 3 meetings, I can say that the registrars' views are what counts. Membership on the RP was by invitation only, and EURid has tried to put together a panel that would be a good representation of its registrar community as a whole. The 7 registrars are: Ascio, Ezone, Home, Key Systems, Registerit, Strato and us.