The French government has published a six page summary of the answers received to its consultation on .FR's future. Next step: an official RFP for the job of running the French registry.
The summary is a crucial step before the designation of the .FR registry by the French authorities.
Before putting out a Request For Proposals for all the suffixes it has jurisdiction over (.FR of course, but also .GF, .GP, .MQ, .RE, .PM, .WF, .YT, .TF, .BL and .MF) the French government wanted to find out what people expect from these suffixes.
It got 33 answers in all, 21 of them from companies or organizations (including INDOM), 11 from individuals and 1 from a French Senator asking for the current local presence requirement on .FR to be dropped.
The French government will start the RFP before the end of the year
The publication of the 6-page summary means that the government is now free to launch the RFP. This is the last step in a drawn-out affair that started with a decree passed in February 2007 stating that the registries for the above suffixes would have to be designated through an RFP (AFNIC, .FR's current registry, has never been officially designated by the government and therefore has no clear legal status as the entity in charge of overseeing the French suffix).
The consultation was started 6 months ago on April 25, 2008 with a deadline set for June 24. Now that all the answers have been published, it is hoped the French government will start the RFP before the end of the year.
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