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MEDEF’s View on Dot EU

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

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MEDEF’s View on Dot EU

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  1. MEDEF’s View on Dot EU Domain Day – 5 novembre 2002 – Palazzo Stelline – Milano Catherine GABAY – Director Innovation and Research - Medef

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

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

  4. MEDEF’s duties are : Ø      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 Ø      to promote the thinking of business and broadcast it throughout all components of society  Ø      to favour the ends of the business community, its energy and successes, and the progress of management in a global economy  MEDEF 's view on dot EU Catherine Gabay, Director Innovation and Research

  5. MEDEF’s duties are : Ø      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 Ø      to contribute to a constructive social dialogue between the parties in businesses and their professional organisations  Ø      to strive to adapt the different systems of social protection to economic and demographic change MEDEF 's view on dot EU Catherine Gabay, Director Innovation and Research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  17. Thank you for your attention.Any Questions ?

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