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CENTR has published its opinion on the Draft Directive concerning measures to ensure a high common level of network and information security across the Union (NIS Directive): http://www.centr.org/CENTR_opinion_on_EU_NIS_directive

The opinion welcomes the focus of the draft Directive on enabling a culture of security and trust but expresses concern that the text moves away from enabling the development of a security framework, in favour of a prescriptive, regulatory environment.

The CENTR Board commented on the EC Consultation on Internet Governance .

The comment endorses ‘cooperation and partnership among all stakeholders’ as a key principle of Internet governance, reiterates the deep involvement of the European ccTLD registries as a stakeholder on the national and international level and emphasizes the necessity of paying attention to the needs of the local Internet community.

You can find the Board comment at http://centr.org/CENTR-Comment-EC_consultation .

The regular pre-report to the upcoming ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires is available covering what to expect at the the ccNSO, GNSO and GAC sessions. 
Click to go to the report
 

To improve the protection of the French Internet against attacks on its DNS infrastructure, Afnic calls for an acceleration in the deployment of DNSSEC

The strategic plan is based on several action levers, the initial initiatives being as follows:

• A Practical Guide to DNSSEC deployment: this implementation and deployment manual provides practical guidance for DNS hosts to configure DNSSEC on their infrastructure;

• Special DNSSEC training, in partnership with HSC for those involved in DNS hosting in France; 

•  A financial incentive scheme. Until 31 December 2013, Afnic is offering its accredited registrars a 10% discount on the price of creation and keep options for DNSSEC signed domain names under the .fr TLD.

CENTR has published its latest ccTLD newsletter with a focus on its recent CENTR Awards 2013 .  The newly refreshed newsletter format also covers among other things;

• "CENTR Awards 2013"
• IGF: The Social Role of a ccTLD Registry
• QnA with AFNIC (.fr) on R&D
• Domain Name Statistics
• Members 185

Effective 25 October 2013, DNSSEC was implemented for .BY (Belarus)
 
DNSSEC will first be assigned to the domains of state organizations such as mil.by and gov.by. Later on, Registrars will be provided with possibility to assign DNSSEC service to any second level domain name in ccTLD .BY



 

This morning – unfortunately too early for any European to follow remotely – CENTR in cooperation with the other regional ccTLD organisations AfTLD, APTLD and LACTLD held a workshop at the Internet Governance Forum in Bali on the Social Role of a ccTLD Registry .

ccTLD registries from the different regions showcased projects and activities they run next to their main task of managing the national country code and by which they contribute to the development of the Local Internet Community.

‘The workshop contributed significantly to underline the importance of the leading role the ccTLDs played, are playing and will continue to play within their community’ said Giovanni Seppia  (Chair of the CENTR IGF workshop).

The agenda and presentations are at www.centr.org/IGF2013 .

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Safety (ENISA) is running its European Cyber Security Month campaign for the second time in a row during October. This year Serbia is joining in, represented by the Register of National Domain Names of Serbia (RNIDS). European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) aims to promote cyber security among the population in order to change attitudes towards cyber threats and to provide the public with the latest information through education and exchange of good practices. RNIDS is organising two events in O3ONE Gallery in Belgrade as part of ECSM – an exhibition and a panel discussion – which are open to all.