DNS Questionnaire

DNS Questionnaire
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1.  Who defines your policies?

They  are  defined  by a open  committee called ITA-PE which coordinates
e-mail activities in Italy.
The committee  includes individuals  from  most of  the  italian Service
Providers and Academic Institutions.

2.  How do you establish your naming policies?

The agreements  are  reached finding  consensus  (avoiding votes)  after
discussion either  on  a  mailing list, ita-pe at nis.garr.it, or during
quaterly meetings.

3.  What legal status, if any, do your decisions/policies have?

None for the time being, but we  are expecting formal recognition from
Italian PTT Ministry and UNINFO (ISO Italian branch).

4a. Would you register sub.tld (e.g. co.uk, ac.uk etc)?

No.

 b. Do you have geographic subdomains in the tld (e.g. state.tld, county.tld)?

Yes, hierarchical administrative  geographycal domains

 c. Do you have different categories of 2nd level domains (e.g."public"
    ones like "co.at" and "private" ones like "alcatel.at") in parallel?

Yes, administrative geographycal 2nd and 3rd level domains are public.

 d. If you have "public" 2nd level domains, what are the rules for
    running such a domain (e.g. everybody's registration has to be
    accepted for free  if it fits into this category)?

Public domains are  delegated  to an organization wishing to  provide  a
free name service in  its region.  Delegation  could  be withdrawn if the
delegated  organization does  not  properly  administer the geographical
domain.

 e. If so, how do you split your tld?

Hierarchical administrative geographical domains as follows:


2nd level - Regions     registered with both full name and  3-letter
                        shortname.  (e.g. Lombardia and LOM, Toscana
                        and TOS,  etc)

          - Provincies  with both fullname and  2-letter shortname.
                        (e.g. Napoli and NA, Milano and MI, etc)


3rd level - Cities      with fullname only, under their province.
                        (e.g. Capri.NA.it, etc). Note that cities
                        giving their name to the province do not
                        register also as 3rd level.



5a. Would you register domain.tld (e.g. microsoft.uk)?

Yes, if compliant with the registration rules.

 b. Would you register domain.sub.tld (e.g. microsoft.co.uk)?

No.  Only if sub.tld is already  registered,  then we accept to register
(for information purposes only) its subdomains.

6a. Do you allow individuals to register names or just organisations?

Just organizations.

 b. If you differentiate between individuals and organisations, what are your
    criteria?

An organization should have legal status as such.

7a. Do you require proof of identity?

Yes.

 b. If so, how do you prove the identity of a requestor?

We ask the requestor to sign his acceptance of the rules on company head
paper  and we trust  a  number  of  known ISPs who actually  submit  the
request on behalf of the requestor.

8.  Do you register domains only for organisations/individuals located in your
    country or do you allow anyone to register in your tld?

Only organizations with legal status in Italy.

9a. Do you allow a single organisation to register more than one domain?

No,  with  some  exceptions  (e.g.  legally  registered  newspapers  and
magazines belonging to the  same publisher,  some  telematics  services,
etc)

 b. If so, do you limit the number of domains registered by a single
    organisation?

n/a

10a.To whom would you allocate well known names like digital.tld/
    digital.sub.tld?

We ask, but without enforcement, that the  domain name should be as much
similar as possible to the legal name of the requesting organization. If
not we first recall the rule "one name per organization" and briefly try
to  convince  the requestor  not  to  use a  well known  name  to  avoid
conflicts in the future.

  b.What criteria do you use when deciding whether or not to allow a name?

Names are allowed except when they  are in the set of the reserved names
or shorter then 3 characteres  (at 2nd level) or of 2 characters  (under
any other "public" domain).

11a.How do you arbitrate between two or more claims to the same name?

We  inform  both parties  of  the  claim  asking if  one  of them  could
renounce.  If none renounces we give the name to the first requestor and
mark  it  as challenged. We leave to them resolve their conflict as they
wish.
We query at regular intervals for both parties to resolve the challenge,
in  any form they wish,  to  solve the situation:  bilateral  agreement,
arbitration commettee, civil law judgment, ...
We also inform both parties when very similar names may cause ambiguity.

  b.Who is responsible for the arbitration?

Any Italian legal entity.

12a.Do you allow the registration of geographical names (cities, countries,
    rivers, etc)?

Yes but regions, provinces and cities are special cases (see 4.b,c,d,e).

  b.If so, would you register one for an individual organisation?

Yes, but we briefly try to discourage the requestor.

13a.Do you have any names which may not be registered (e.g. names in bad taste,
    names of protocols, etc)?

Names shorter  than  3 characters  (2nd level  domains)  or 2 characters
(other levels).  Names of protocols/services (tcp,  finger, ftp, telnet,
etc) and ambiguos names (email, www, ecc).

14a.Do you run secondary nameservice for subdomains of the tld?

Yes,  only for 2nd level subdomains (e.g.  cnr.it, fiat.it, ecc) and 2nd
and 3rd level administrative geographical domains.

  b.If so, is this optional/mandatory and do you charge for the service?

Optional, no charge. Mandatory for public geographical domains.

15a.Do you check for a running nameserver at the time of request?

Yes, for at least a couple of them

  b.Do you check for a running nameserver at regular intervals after the
    name has been delegated?

Yes,    because   we    check    for   the    reachability    of    each
postmaster@<domain>.it.

16. Do you allow the reservation of names (i.e. no running service)?

No

17a.Do you charge for reservation/registration of names?

No, at the moment. Policy to be modified

  b.If so, is it a one off fee, an annual subscription or both?

n/a

  c.How much is the fee?

n/a

18a.Do you remove unused domain names?

Yes.

  b.If so, how do you define an unused domain?

A domain that is cancelled by the  admin-c or that is no longer serviced
by any Service Provider. A domain which results inactive for more than 6
consecutive months.

19. Do you think that the current system you operate will be changed over the
    next 12 months?

Yes,  completion and update of  existing rules and policies are expected
soon.

20. Do you accept requests for domains from providers only, from anyone or from
    a different group only?

>From Providers only.

21. What resources are allocated to the administration of the domain?

3 FTE, 2 servers, 3 workstations.

22. Do you have any automation of the registration/delegation process?

Yes, partial (e-mail robot).

Daniele Vannozzi                 Phone:     +39 50 593280
GARR-NIS                         Phone NIS: +39 50 593360
c/o CNUCE - Istituto del CNR     Fax:       +39 50 904052
Via Santa Maria 36               Telex:  500371 - CNUCE
56100 Pisa - Italy               E-mail: vannozzi at nis.garr.it