RIPE 33: TLD-WG Summary

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                          RIPE 33: TLD-WG Summary

      Place: Palais Auersperg, Vienna, Austria
      Date: 5 May 1999
      Chair: Niall O'Reilly
      Scribe: Maldwyn Morris

      Participants: 33
      ccTLD Registries represented: 9

      This short summary of the TLD-WG session was presented at the
      closing plenary session of RIPE 33.
      Please see the RIPE 33 TLD-WG Minutes for more detail.

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      Current Actions

           TLD-32.1 [Chair]
                Update Workplan
                Part done; kept open; follow up on list.

           TLD-32.2 [Chair]
                Determine DNS-SEC plans and need for support from
                DNS-WG
                No registries have advised Chair of plans to
                implement DNS-SEC. A couple have indicated that
                guidance from DNS-WG would be welcome. One has
                indicated that preparatory study is in progress.
                Done

           TLD-32.3 [Chair]
                Advise DB-WG of number of registries planning to use
                RIPE whois code
                Nine registries are either using or considering using
                the code.
                Done

           TLD-32.4 [Philippe Renaut]
                Present NIC-FR directory work at Vienna
                Done

           TLD-32.5 [Mike Norris]
                Co-ordinate review of RIPE-152
                Agreed: review of RIPE-152 is not necessary at this
                time.
                Closed as OBE

      HARMONIC: Directory Service of NIC.FR

           Presentation by Philippe Renaut.

           HARMONIC web front-end supports query by (partial) domain
           name, business area or geographical location with
           multilingual presentation. Architecture provides for
           access to multiple, distributed databases.

           Question: are other registries prepared to make their data
           available in pilot project using HARMONIC interface ?

           See http://harmonic.nic.fr.

      CENTR Update

           Presentation by Fay Howard.

           RIPE-CENTR Project winding down.
           CENTR to incorporate in England and to locate in Oxford.
           Fay Howard appointed as General Manager.
           CENTR will be recruiting: technical and administrative
           staff.
           Technical workshop planned with RIPE-34.

           See http://www.centr.org.

      ICANN/DNSO Update

           Presentation by Fay Howard.

           Paris, BMW, Singapore.
           CENTR participation in consensus-building.
           DNSO Formation, Constituencies and General Assembly.
           Inaugural Meetings in Berlin later this month.

           See http://www.icann.org.

      New Actions

           TLD-33.1 [Chair]
                Provide minutes for RIPE-32 TLD-WG.

           TLD-33.2 [Chair]
                Obtain information from registries on plans for
                continued dependency on RIPE DB for domain objects.

                [ Notes added after the closing plenary session:

                Feedback during the plenary suggests that I have
                expressed this action item far too tersely for
                clarity.

                Several issues arise here: the large number of domain
                objects in the RIPE DB, authority for these objects
                and appropriateness of this location for them,
                quality of data in these objects, possibility of
                distributing data among several databases, coherency
                of operational contact data, single point of initial
                reference, control of access to the data, data
                privacy, and possible differences in policy among
                registries.

                These issues need to be discussed in co-ordination
                with DB WG, next requirements determined, and
                corresponding resources identified.

                -- Niall O'Reilly ]

           TLD-33.3 [Chair]
                Request information from registries on whether they
                are prepared to make their data available for pilot
                project using HARMONIC interface.

           TLD-33.4 [Chair]
                Place Future Direction of TLD-WG on Agenda for
                RIPE-34 and stimulate preparatory discussion on
                mailing list.

           TLD-33.5 [All]
                Contribute to workplan discussion on mailing list.

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