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Italian National Research Council Institute for Informatics and Telematics

Italian National Research Council Institute for Informatics and Telematics. Domain name registration at IIT - CNR ITALY Stefano Trumpy International Relations Unit of the “.it” registry. Institute for Informatics and Telematics.

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Italian National Research Council Institute for Informatics and Telematics

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  1. Italian National Research CouncilInstitute for Informatics and Telematics Domain name registrationat IIT - CNR ITALY Stefano TrumpyInternational Relations Unitof the “.it” registry

  2. Institute for Informatics and Telematics • Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) target: suitably respond to the challenges launched by the information and communication technologies • IIT became operative since 1st March 2002, but its background is dated in the late 60's, within CNUCE Institute • IIT exhibits a good harmony between research and technological activities: two aspects of one single goal

  3. Institute for Informatics and Telematics The Registry activity • December 1987: IANA approved the ccTLD“it” and assigned the role of Italian Registry to CNR-CNUCE • Today IIT-CNR acts as the Italian Registry which is in charge of assigning domain names within the country code top level domain “it” (ISO 3166-1) • IIT interacts with more than 2.500 providers/maintainers (Registrars) • At present, more than 950.000 domain names are registered under the ccTLD “it” • Registration can be submitted by natural or juridical person of the EU Countries

  4. Organization of the registry • The function of “manager” of “.it” is performed inside a department of a research Institute of the National Council of Research; the administrative contact is the Director of the Institute; • Up to December 2003, the regulatory function has been performed by an external organization composed by experts in DNS, called Naming Authority; in this way, the registry didn’t have direct responsibility of the rules applied; • A transition is on going: the constituencies of the Local Internet Community have selected their representatives to form a committee for the rules (policy board) acting under the umbrella of the registry; that committee will include representatives of the government; • The constitution of an independent entity, with the participation of CNR, is under evaluation.

  5. Steering Committees Director IIT/RA Systems Operations External Relations Legal aspects International Relations TheItalian Registry Internal Organisation About 50 people including staff-operators, administrative persons and technicians (35 m*y equivalent)

  6. Registry Registrar Registrant TheItalian Registry External Organisation • Registry-Registrars like, but not exactly • The Registry also interacts with the Registrants • At present the Registry manages both electronic and paper documents • The Letter of Assumption of Responsibility (LAR) is received on paper • We are moving to electronic papers digitally signed

  7. TheItalian Registry Tariffs (years 2002-2004) • Registration of new domain names: 4,91 EUR + VAT • Change of registrar: 4,91 EUR + VAT • Change of domain name assignee: 4,91 EUR + VAT • Maintenance rate: 4,91 EUR + VAT

  8. TheItalian Registry Statistics Number of registered domains Juridical person deregulation The active domains are ~90% of the registered domains

  9. TheItalian Registry Statistics Number of contestations at the registryfrom 1998 to 2003 deregulation

  10. TheItalian Registry Statistics Types of contestation procedures

  11. TheItalian Registry Statistics Reassignment procedures (Contestations with judicial action from 1998 to 2003)

  12. TheItalian Registry in numbers • Running Domain Names: > 950.000 • Average registration time : 4,8 hours • Annual fee/domain name: 4,91 euro+ VAT • Number of “.com” and “.net” names registered in Italy: slightly more than 40% of those registered under “.it” • The estimated number of Internet users in Italy is today around 23 millions • Annual budget: about 5.000.000 euro • Personnel: about 50 people (35 m*y equivalent)

  13. TheItalian Registry ENUM status • ENUM Italian trial should start before the end of the year • Contacts are in progress with AGCOM and the Ministry of Communications for running the teer 1 • A presentation of IIT proposal will be done in October 2003 during an ENUM meeting organised by AGCOM

  14. Evolutions demanded by the LIC and/or planned by the registry • Eliminate limitations for physical persons • Adoption of IDN • Eliminate the letter for assumption of responsibility ? • Improving security and stability • Improving WHOIS services also taking into account national and European directives • Harmonizing with “.eu” public policy directives and operations • Setting up of a PKI Certification Authority • This issues and others will be addressed soon by the newly constituted policy board

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