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Dedicated to preserving the central coordinating functions of the global Internet for the public good. John L. Crain, Ch

Dedicated to preserving the central coordinating functions of the global Internet for the public good. John L. Crain, Chief Technical Officer, ICANN crain@icann.org. A little about the IANA. Jon Postel first started keeping track of numbers around 1969. (In a notebook)

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Dedicated to preserving the central coordinating functions of the global Internet for the public good. John L. Crain, Ch

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  1. Dedicated to preserving the central coordinating functions of the globalInternet for the public good. John L. Crain, Chief Technical Officer, ICANN crain@icann.org

  2. A little about the IANA • Jon Postel first started keeping track of numbers around 1969. (In a notebook) • Added staff in the early 80’s (Joyce Reynolds, now RFC editor) • Started being called “the IANA” in the late 80’s • Became a function of ICANN in 1998

  3. What does the IANA do? • Registers Unique Identifiers and related information for use on the Internet. • IP Addresses, AS #’s, Port #’s, many others… including TLD’s. • That last bit effects you 

  4. Country Code Top Level Domains • Referred to as a CcTLD • codes are assigned from a table known as ISO-3166-1 • IANA current practices summary is called ICP1 • http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm

  5. Services for CcTLD’s • Mainly related to changes in the root zone or whois data. • Change of DNS servers • Change of IP addresses for DNS servers • Change of POC details (Point Of Contact)

  6. CcTLD changes • Make sure you have all of your data in order • Check at • http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

  7. Samples • http://www.iana.org/root-whois/nl.htm .nl – Netherlands • http://www.iana.org/root-whois/br.htm .br - Brazil

  8. Making Changes Be sure of the changes that you want to make! Think them through! Write them down! Make sure that everyone involved at your end is aware of the upcoming change!! (Tech Contact and Admin Contact)

  9. The Template Text version currently available from IANA website http://www.iana.org/tld/cctld-template.txt Will automatically generate templates in the future

  10. Fill out the relevant parts Fill in each section but if no change, write “No Change” Will save everyone’s time 

  11. (1) Description and (2) TLD 1. Purpose/Description.............: Free text describing the change “Renumbering Server”, “Changing contact data”, “Adding servers”, “Deleting Server” 2. Top-Level Domain Name...........: Country Code “tl”, “mn”, “la”, “kz”, “nl”, “bn”, “br”, “th” etc

  12. (3) Sponsoring Organisation 3a. Organization Name (Registrant)..: “No Change” 3b. Street Address..................: 3c. City............................: 3d. State...........................: 3e. Postal Code.....................: 3f. Country Code (2 letter).........:

  13. (4) Administrative Contact • 4a. (omitted) • 4b. (I)ndividual or (R)ole?.........: No Change • 4c. Name............................: • 4d. Organization Name...............: • 4e. Street Address..................: • 4f. City............................: • 4g. State...........................: • 4h. Postal Code.....................: • 4i. Country Code (2 letter).........: • 4j. Phone Number....................: • 4k. Fax Number......................: • 4l. Email Address...................:

  14. (5) Technical Contact • 5a. (omitted) • 5b. (I)ndividual or (R)ole?.........: • 5c. Name............................: • 5d. Organization Name...............: • 5e. Street Address..................: • 5f. City............................: • 5g. State...........................: • 5h. Postal Code.....................: • 5i. Country Code (2 letter).........: • 5j. Phone Number....................: • 5k. Fax Number......................: • 5l. Email Address...................:

  15. (6) Primary Name Server • 6a. Primary Server Hostname.........: • 6b. Primary Server Netaddress.......: • a is the name such as ns.primary.nl • b is the IP address such as 193.0.0.193

  16. (7) Secondary Name Server (repeat as needed) • 7a. Secondary Server Hostname.......: • 7b. Secondary Server Netaddress.....: • 7a. Secondary Server Hostname.......: • 7b. Secondary Server Netaddress.....:

  17. (8) Registration and (9)Whois • 8. URL for Registration Services...: • “http://www.nic.nl • 9. Whois Server....................: • “whois.nic.nl”

  18. Confirmation • IANA staff will ask for confirmation from both the administrative contact and the technical contact. • Make sure they both know the changes are happening!! • Confirmations don’t take place without their confirmation.

  19. Technical checks • IANA staff will check that the servers are there and responding correctly. • If there are technical issues, IANA staff will work with you to resolve them.

  20. Current policy issues • Policies will and do change • http://www.iana.org/procedures/comments.html (Refer to document)

  21. Assuming all is ok • IANA will forward the changes to the NTIA of the USDoC who check only that process was followed. • The changes get forwarded to VeriSign who update the zone.

  22. Policy and ICANN • ccNSO: http://ccnso.icann.org/ • “The ccNSO is the policy development body for a narrow range of global ccTLD issues within the ICANN structure” Joining? • http://ccnso.icann.org/applications/clean-app.shtml

  23. Usefull links • IANA main page • http://www.iana.org • CcTLD whois data • http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm • ICP1 (IANA practices) • http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm • Format, Content, and Technical Requirements for Requests to Change TLD Contact Information • http://www.iana.org/cctld/contact-change-requests-09may01.htm

  24. Useful links • Template for changes • http://www.iana.org/tld/cctld-template.txt • Step by step procedure • http://www.iana.org/cctld/nameserver-change-procedures-13may03.htm • ICANN main page • http://www.icann.org • ccNSO: • http://ccnso.cann.org

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