CENTR workshop for ccTLD Managers
Adam Todd at at AH.NET
Fri Aug 28 05:49:27 CEST 1998
At 00:02 28/08/98 +0200, Jean-Christophe Praud wrote: >> If you manage a ccTLD and wish to attend, please reply completing the >> at the end of this email. >> Places are restricted to 26 and so initially we must limit participation to >> one person per TLD. Preference will be given to CENTR participants should >> applications exceed 26. > >Mmm. You should include "alternative" cccTLDs managers, too. Yes, I think it would be wise to include holders of 3 letter Country Codes as well. There are several now: Bulgaria .BUL Veni Markovski <veni at isoc.bg> Poland .POL Artur Grzymala <artur at zoo.pl> Australia .AUS Adam Todd <at at ah.net> New Zealand .NZL Alan Brown <alanb at manawatu.gen.nz> PNG .PNG Application in process And more are joining every day. Literally. >> There is often talk of 'best practice' and even standardization of ccTLD >> and policies. With one of the key requirements of ccTLDs being autonomy and >> with the diversity of economies, legal systems and cultures, is there any >> for harmonization? > >It should. You should ask Artur Grzymala <artur at zoo.pl> and Veni >Markovski <veni at isoc.bg> about their respective ccTLDs policies. Ask me about AUS practises. We made a dramatic change in July because of a major Fraud incident caused by a Registrar. >> One of the roles of the established CENTR should be to coordinate or >> commission projects on behalf of members. Pooling of resources or sharing >> cost of software developments for example would be a significant benefit of >> CENTR membership. > >It would be for all Internet participants, too... There are already many Shared Registry and Registra data base processes developed by Enhanced DNS operators. Some are commercially available, some are run by companies strictly interested in licencing the use of, but not the software. Such as AHNET for example who run replicated Databases for Registries and Registrars under contract. This eliminated much of the cost of administration of a ccTLD and allows the technology to be developed far quicker where needed. Unfortunatly, AHNET needs ccTLD operators to at least provide a number of diverse TLD Hosting servers, although it's happy to offer a Primary or at least secondary hosting for TLD data. >The IRSC (http://www.irsc.ah.net ) has already established a so-called >"alternative" root servers network enabling virtually anybody to create Enhanced Root Server Network. >his/her own TLD(s), with the agreement and the cooperation of the other >IRSC members. IRSC is only responsible for the syncronisation of Root Server Members. Anyone who wishes to apply for a TLD can do so via an RSC according to that RSC's policy. Many RSCs also have DNS hosting facilities - often for free - that can be used, so infrastructure as described above can be quickly reduced to give the consumer a faster better response. Even less TLD host servers to choose from maybe in the long term. But it's a cooperative effort. AURSC has a fairly strict policy on TLD entry. ccTLD's can enter after submission of a policy, but AURSC will not specifically Authorise the policy acceptence as AURSC is not familiar with local laws and rules. AURSC will however suggest any necessary fair modifications that should be taken into consideration. After AURSC has approved acceptence the TLD is added to AURSC and distributed to the IRSC members. This is working very well now. Anyone who runs a Root Server (proper Root Server, we can test and even help set one up if required) can enter IRSC by applying to IRSC. >The IRSC is supported by ISPs, IPPs, etc. as well as end-users. >We are currently serving an estimated share of 30% of global DNS >traffic. Fair estimate - it's growing, I noticed about 8 new ISP's from Europe and the USA start using AURSC this week. >Some of our european members (see above) have created "alternative" >cccTLDs, because of their ccTLDs politics or private monopols. Lets say "Optional" rather than Alternative. Although the words are synonomous, some people have hurt the word Alternative. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Todd http://adamtodd.ah.net Business Development, Technology, Domain Registration and Network Advisory Phone +61 2 9729 0565 - Todd Corporation http://www.todd.inoz.com Fax +61 2 4659 6786 - AHNET http://www.ah.net - AURSC http://www.aursc.ah.net Telstra Reseller and Telstra Convey Member (Not an Employee of Telstra) Get the DOMAIN NAME HANDBOOK NOW http://www.domainhandbook.com -------- Logged at Fri Aug 28 17:17:31 MET DST 1998 ---------
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