ICANN

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ICANN

• The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
  Numbers
• M. Stuart Lynn
• President and CEO
• TWNIC
• July 16, 2001

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Overview

• ICANN background and role
• Future of the Internet
• ICANN status, issues and progress
• Involvement

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The Internet Domain Name System (DNS)

• Started as a simple memory aid
• Map easy to remember names into IP addresses
• Example.com ---gt 128.9.176.32
• Domain name --gt IP address
• Handled by late Jon Postel under contract to USG
• Internet commercialized in 1994/5
• Worldwide Web
• Domain names became important
• Free ---gt Pay
• Identifier ---gt Identity (e,g, www.ibm.com)
• Cybersquatting and trademarks
• Became too hot to handle by one person
• Led to the formation of ICANN

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ICANN

• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
  Numbers
• Founded in 1998
• Following global community input via Green
  Paper/White Paper
• Memorandum of Understanding with U.S. Department
  of Commerce
• Coordinates global policy relating to assignment
  of
• Internet domain names
• the Domain Name System (DNS)
• Numerical IP addresses
• Other technical numbers
• Coordinates DNS Root Server System
• Acting through Root Server System Advisory
  Committee
• And more

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ICANN Principles (MOU)

• Ensure Internet stability
• Promote competition
• Private, bottom-up coordination
• Broad representation
• Global diversity
• Stakeholders and constituencies

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ICANN

• An exercise in technical self-management by the
  global Internet community
• ICANN
• Internationalization of policy functions plus
• Private sector management
• A global partnership
• ICANNs policy roles are limited
• ICANN does not run the Internet!
• Some regulation via contract management

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ICANN Roles

• Technical policy coordination
• Other areas implied by four MOU principles
  including
• Orderly introduction of new top level domains
• Orderly delegation of authorities
• To gTLDs, ccTLDs, countries
• Promotion of orderly competition
• Registries, registrars
• From 1 registrar to 80 active registrars for
  gTLDs
• Halved average price
• New gTLD registries
• Protection for Intellectual Property

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ICANN Organization
Numbers
Names
Technologies
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Overall Goals

• Effective stewardship of global policy
• Governed by 4 principles
• International and representative
• Bottom-up
• Guardian of stability

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Future of the Internet
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Driving Forces

• More and better of the same
• IP telephony
• Mobile IP
• The wireless Internet
• Cell phones with imbedded radios, cameras etc
• IP everywhere
• From picture frames to wristwatches
• Information appliances
• Multimedia
• MPEG to MP3
• Other killer applications?

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Constraints

• Infrastructure
• Sufficient bandwidth everywhere
• Wired and wireless
• Key technologies
• Sufficient IP address space
• A stable DNS
• Evolving
• Policy issues
• ICANN and not

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ICANN Status, Issues, and Progress
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Technical Issues

• IANA Services
• Emerging RIRs
• LACNIC, AFRINIC
• Emerging RIR document
• Root server architecture
• Distribution master
• InterNIC
• Now at ICANN
• E164.arpa
• IETF/ITU
• ENUM
• IPv6

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IP Address Space

• IPv4 runs out when?
• 2004 - 2010
• NATs etc not a panacea
• IPv6 moving forward?
• 32-bit --gt 128-bit addressing
• 4 x 109 nodes --gt 340 x 1027
• 18 billion billion network addresses each
  containing 4 billion nodes and more
• RFC1972 in 1994
• Lack of real experience
• Some work to be done e.g., mobile, DNS support
• Production support starting to roll
• Scaling and upgrading problems
• Business case?

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The DNS Progress and Issues

• New TLDs
• 2 agreements signed .info and .bus
• 1 posted awaiting board approval .names
• 4 in progress
• 1 unsponsored .pro
• 3 sponsored .museum, .aero, .coop
• More TLDs?
• Evaluation of proof of concept
• Board appoints committee to plan evaluation
• Do we need more? When? What?
• Alternate roots
• Lynn paper posted as ICP-3
• http//www.icann.org/icp/icp-3-background/lynn-sta
  tement-09jul01.htm
• Other documents

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The DNS Progress and Issues (continued)

• IP issues
• UDRP review (DNSO)
• WIPO-2
• WhoIs vs privacy
• Sunrise etc
• Lotteries etc
• Internationalized Domain Names
• Global vs local solutions
• Server side vs client side
• Evolution of interface standard
• Design group and DUDE-2
• Testbeds

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Other Policy Issues

• How should ICANN be governed?
• At Large Study Committee
• Paper posted
• Interaction with overall ICANN structure
• Related issues
• ccTLDs
• DNSO
• Redelegation issues
• Competition model
• How much regulation is enough/too much?

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Status of Agreements

• TLDs
• Unsponsored (2/1/1)
• Sponsored template imminent
• Root server operator agreements
• RSSAC meeting, London, August
• Address registry agreements
• Resolve remaining issues end of July?
• ccTLD agreements
• Trilateral draft within 3 weeks
• New counsel for international affairs starts
  August 1
• Theresa Swinehart
• Building up capacity for 5 agreements per month

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Budget and Staffing

• 2001-2002 budget approved
• 10 growth in operating budget
• Approved growth in staffing
• International support
• Technical support
• Communications and legal
• New approach to ccTLD funding support
• Voluntary contribution if no agreement
• Over 850,000 pledged against goal of 1.3
  million for 2000-2001
• Our thanks to TWNIC!
• Requests for 2001-2002 to be sent around November

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Involvement
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Involvement

• ICANN can only be as good as the people who get
  involved with its policies and processes
• What ICANN does will affect you
• We need your help!

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ICANN

• www.icann.org
• M. Stuart Lynn
• lynn_at_icann.org

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The DNS Hierarchy
Root
Top Level Domains
Second Level Domains
Third Level Domains
Global Top Level Domains gTLDs
Country Code Top Level Domains ccTLDs
Users register domain names in registries (e.g.,
.com) using registrars (e.g., register.com) as
their agents
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The DNS System
Root Server
Root Zone File
ICANN
USER
ISP
REGISTRIES
IP Address of .tw Registry
IP Address of .com.tw Registry
abc.com.tw??
IP Address of .abc.com.tw