For those having some French: france@large [ * ] has now completed on http://franceatlarge.org/wiki/QFR its questions to the French Government over the RFC (request for candidates) they published to replace AFNIC as the organism managing ".fr". This document is probably one of the most complete concerning the domain name space evolution and importance for a country in our present time and in the years to come (aside the commercial issues for plain dumb domain names addressed by ICANN which represent a tiny portion of the matter at hand). The basic interest is that France has a law which consider the reality of the service provided to citizens (on-line public communication) without any reference to the present Internet/IETF/ICANN/ISOC solution. It only uses the common term "internet" (lower cases) whithout defining it : it therefore has to be taken from dictionnaries (mostly as the packet switch network of the digital ecosystem). That law also understands naming as a public service to citizens that is delegated under the responsibility of the Government. One of the question france@large raises is to know if that naming is for only to be used on the internet, and in such a case why special relations with ICANN ? An added interest is that this call for candidates concerns one of the main ccTLD and therefore represents some kind of "DNS development review" no other country has engaged before. Also, that the Questionnaire is part of the candidacy process, and the Government (active GAC member and one of the European partners) must respond and publish its answers to the 122 france@large questions. Last but not least, the question is posed of the legal relations with the the digital convergence and with the (Multilingual and Semantic Internet, the internet of the thoughts). jfc [ * ] The ALS that does not exist, so Staff could never answer them officially.....