Authorised by the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) in 1991, the Croatian Academic and Research Network CARNet (further in the text CARNet) as administrator of the top-level hr domain, and in accordance with the provisions of the Decree issued by the Government of the Republic of Croatia on the founding of the Croatian Academic and Research Network, CARNet ( Official Gazette No. 16/95) and the Statute of the Croatian Academic and Research Network CARNet, the CARNet Board of Governors issued on 20 December 2000 the following

REGULATIONS

REGARDING ORGANISATION OF THE TOP-LEVEL"hr" INTERNET DOMAIN AND THE PRINCIPLES OF MANAGING THE TOP-LEVEL "hr" DOMAIN

CONTENTS

I INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS - THE INTERNET DOMAINS AND THE TOP-LEVEL "HR" DOMAIN1

II TYPES OF DOMAINS WITHIN HR DOMAIN

III NAMES OF DOMAINS WITHIN HR DOMAIN

IV QUALIFIED REGISTRATION APPLICANTS DOMAIN USERS

V BODIES AND DOCUMENTS RELATED TO HR DOMAIN MANAGEMENT

VI DOMAIN REGISTRATION

VII RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF DOMAIN USERS AND THIRD INTERESTED PARTIES REGARDING DOMAIN USE

VIII HANDLING OF COMPLAINTS AND SETTLING DISPUTES

IX COSTS AND FEES RELATED TO HR DOMAIN MANAGEMENT

X TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

APPENDIX

Article 1

These Regulations deal with the issues of organising the top-level hr Internet domain (further in the text HR domain), interrelations between CARNet, as administrator of the HR domain, subdomain user in the HR domain and possible third interested parties, rights and responsibilities of CARNet and the subdomain users in the HR domain, as well as the principles of managing HR domain.

I INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS THE INTERNET DOMAINS AND THE TOP-LEVEL HR DOMAIN

Article 2

Individual parts of the global information space, individual computers or individual persons are identified in the Internet by their names (e.g. URL Uniform Resource Locator) or electronic address (e.g. e-mail address), and the most important part of every such name or address is always the Internet domain. All countries, networks and individuals linked to the Internet, including CARNet by means of these Regulations, start from the principles and authorities related to the organisation of the Internet domain system (DNS - Domain Name System), which are based primarily on the following international (Internet) documents:

RFC 1591: Domain Name System Structure and Delegation
(URL: ftp://ftp.carnet.hr/pub/Internet/rfc/rfc1591.txt );
Bylaws for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
(URL: http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm );
IANA / ICANN TLD Delegation Practices Document - ICP-1
(URL: http://www.iana.org/cctld/icp1.htm or http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm ).

Article 3

The Internet domains are organised hierarchically. Within a certain domain, subdomains are registered and activated, i.e. lower level domains. The domains of the top (first) level are called top-level domains (TLD). Top-level domains can be divided into three basic groups.

The majority of top-level domains are the so-called national domains (ccTLD - country code domains, e.g. "us", "si", "de", "hr"), assigned to be managed by concrete institutions within a given country, with the aim of making these institutions responsible for the organisation and management of the national domain Internet space. On the day these Regulations are issued, there is only a minor number of the so-called generic top-level domains (gTLD -generic domains), i.e. domains of international (geographically global) type, e.g. com or org or top-level domains, historically related to big national systems in the United States of America, e.g. edu or gov .

Article 4

HR domain is the national domain of the Republic of Croatia and it is the basic element of the national wealth and sovereignty of the Republic of Croatia: it is the basis of her identity in the virtual world and the starting point of structuring, organising and presentating information in the information space of the Republic of Croatia (RH) on the Internet.

Article 5

The basic right and need of every legal and natural person is the presence and subsistence in the virtual world (cyberworld). This rights, needs and responsibilities cannot be accomplished without the Internet domain. The right to use one s own domain is one of the fundamental rights of legal and natural persons. Article 6 Managing HR domain, as an element of national wealth, as well as its use, represent high level of responsibility and respect of interests of all the interested parties. Here, the interest of a community, if clearly defined and accepted, has the advantage over the individual interests of legal or natural persons. In this sense, these Regulations determine the special rights of the government or local authorities in the Republic of Croatia, related first of all to the registration of the so-called generic domains, e.g. domains with names denoting fields of human activities or geographic facilities in Croatia.