Registry Showcase Project

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Registry Showcase Project

• Kim Davies kim_at_centr.org
• Council of European National Top Level Domain
  Registries
• ICANN 23, Luxembourg
• 10 July, 2005

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Best Practice for ccTLDs

• Various Best Practice initiatives within CENTR
  over the years
• Two areas
• Governance Best Practice
• Operational/Technical Best Practice
• True best practice is highest standard
• Politically problematic
• Fear ccTLDs will be benchmarked against
• Should rather be something to strive toward

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Minimum Standards

• Define minimum standards for ccTLDs?
• Solves political problem
• Not really useful
• Particularly in Europe most would meet such
  standards

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Solution

• Develop a registry showcase
• Resource site filled with feature projects
  documented
• Documented in detail so experiences can be reused
  by other registries
• Conceptual overview
• Implementation notes
• Contact details
• Benefits
• Not a best practice removes problem of being
  judged
• Removes value judgments on what is good or not
• Useful, unlike minimum standards
• Regularly updatable, unlike formally approved
  standards document

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Sampling of Projects
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Zone Updating

• Nominet UK
• Handles 3.5m domains, 15m RRs, 300k updates/day
• Zone build/reload was slow (2hrs)
• New system
• writes out changes in per minute blocks
• applies changes with IXFR
• Changes rigorously confirmed before application

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DNS Resilience

• DENIC
• New authoritative nameserver setup
• Serves .de (9m domains) with lt5 utilisation
• Mix of IPv4 Unicast, Anycast and IPv6 Unicast
• OOB management
• Mixture of software (BIND8, BIND9, NSD)
• Rolling reloads performing at each site
• Unnoticeable
• Compiles with RFC 2870

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IDN Location Service

• DK Hostmaster
• Navigation aid for MSIE web browsers
• No wildcards, zone synthesis
• System of providing wayfinding with CNAME records
• www.binary CNAME idn-redirection-site
• Binary form is IDN is prevalent local encodings
• UTF-8, Latin 1, Latin 9

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Registry Implementations

• DNSSEC
• EPP
• ENUM
• IDN
• IRIS
• Liberalisations / move to R-R environment

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Related Resources

• CENTR Surveys
• Conducted up to 1 per week
• Complete spectrum of registry operations
• Now performed online automatically with live
  results
• Huge corpus of operational/policy oversight
• Most members can now reach in and find answers on
  what they need
• Policy Repository
• New proposed project
• Store various registry policies
• Will aid in harmonisation work
• Goal is common EPP requirements, poss. extensions

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Questions?