It's Requirements Panel time again!

stephane.vangelder@indom.com (Stephane Van Gelder) — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:42:45 +0200

EURid's Requirements Panel at work during its 3rd meeting, in February.

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.

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stephane.vangelder@indom.com (Stephane Van Gelder) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:58:56 +0100

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.

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It's Requirements Panel time again!

Striving to improve: auth codes coming to .EU