[address-policy-wg] 2008-05 New Draft Documents Published (Anycasting Assignments for TLDs and Tier 0/1 ENUM)

Peter,

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Peter Koch <pk at denic.de> wrote:
>>> 6.9 Anycasting TLD and Tier 0/1 ENUM Nameservers
>>>
>>> Critical DNS infrastructure is defined as infrastructure providing Authoritative
>>> TLD or ENUM Tier 0/1 DNS lookup services.
>
> The term "Critical DNS infrastructure" is defined here just to be referred to
> in one single place three paragraphs down.  I'd prefer if the term would be
> avoided and "Authoritative TLD or ENUM Tier 0/1 DNS lookup services" be
> inserted at the appropriate place.

We could probably change this, but I think that the reasoning behind this
definition was not only to use it as reference, but also to say that these
DNS servers are different - all other domain names depend on them.

>>> The organisations applicable under this policy are TLD operators as defined by
>>> IANA and ENUM operators as defined by the ITU. The organisation may receive up
>>> to four /24 prefixes per TLD/ENUM. These prefixes must be used for the sole
>
> "TLD operators as defined by IANA" may be a well intended phrase, but many
> affected registries would reject being "defined" by IANA.  This layer 9 stuff
> aside, I'm still uncertain whether the assignment goes to the registry itself
> or to some operator who provides name service for TLDs (or ENUM, for that
> matter).  The former makes more sense to me. "TLD manager/administrator as
> described in RFC 1591" might be more acceptable.

I did some reading on IANA website and maybe the problem is that
each of us imagine different thing under "defined by IANA" since I didn't
find anything like this on IANA website.

Since RFC 1591 and ICP-1 uses term 'designated manager' and other IANA
documents speaks about "(re)delegation" would:

"designated manager for TLD as delegated by IANA" be OK

> Similar considerations apply to "ENUM operators as defined by the ITU".
> As a side note, ENUM Tier 0 assignments would probably have interactions
> with the policy proposal on "Assignments to the NCC".

ITU documents use these terms:

3.2.1 administrator: The organization entrusted with the
administration of a resource derived
from an international numbering plan.
3.2.2 assignee: The applicant to whom E-series international numbering
resources have been
assigned.
3.2.3 assignment: The process for providing an international numbering
resource to an eligible
applicant.
3.2.4 country: A specific country, a group of countries in an
integrated numbering plan or a
specific geographical area.

so is

"ENUM administrator as assigned by the ITU"

more appropriate?


Ondrej
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