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Fwd: IN-ADDR.ARPA Progress Report
by Joao Luis Silva Damas 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Dear all, here I forward an announcement from ARIN regarding current progress in the maintainance of the in-addr.arpa zone. Best regards, Joao Damas RIPE NCC >From: ARIN IN-ADDR Role <inaddr(a)arin.net> >Subject: IN-ADDR.ARPA Progress Report >Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.10106291525050.10191-100000(a)ops.arin.net> > >Goal: > >Reduce the size of the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone file. This file will be reduced >in size by only containing name servers for /8 networks. > > >Completed Steps: > >Apr 2001 - Established relationships with 2 companies to provide >independent server networks for all ARIN IN-ADDR zone files. > >Jun 2001 - Released a new IN-ADDR.ARPA zone file generator to correct >existing erroneous data. > > >Next Step: > >July 9, 2001 - ARIN will begin revising the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone for those >direct /8 delegations to ARIN. These /8 zone files will be serviced by >the two ARIN nameserver networks. These changes will not affect the >performance of reverse lookup in any of the IPv4 Address space. > >Please direct any questions to inaddr(a)arin.net. > > >Ginny Listman >Director of Engineering >American Registry for Internet Numbers --

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Permission to use/adapt RIPE document 192?
by Brad Knowles 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

Folks, I've recently found out about the document at <ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-192.txt>. I also happen to be in the process of writing a chapter on the DNS for an upcoming book. Can anyone tell me what the RIPE approval process is that I need to go through in order to be able to make use of some of the configuration file and zone file information contained within this page (making some modifications of my own)? Thanks! -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles(a)skynet.be> /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root(a)ihack.net> */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'

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10 Jun '01

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Charges Against ICANN In Australia Over TLDs
by Michael Sondow 17 Mar '01

17 Mar '01

<original message> From: Len Lindon <info(a)humanrights.com.au> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:35:41 +1100 To: <admin(a)tlda.org> Cc: "domain-policy(a)open-rsc.org" <domain-policy(a)open-rsc.org> Subject: .court in court Federal Court of Australia considers .court TITLE: Lindon v Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers CITATION: [2001] FCA 265 URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/feddec/0/20011/0/FD002270.htm Justice Alan Goldberg on 9 March 2001 at Melbourne: > 8 In general terms, the complaint which lies behind the proceeding is > that the applicant seeks to enable there to be access over the Internet to > what he calls two non-colliding name spaces, ".human rights" and ".court", > which he has sought to set up and operate. He alleges in the statement of > claim that ICANN and the other respondents, other than the Commission and the > Commission's officer, will be holding a series of meetings, including in > particular a meeting starting this day and ending on 13 March 2001 in > Melbourne, and that they are engaging in conduct, or will engage in conduct, > that constitutes a contravention of ss 45, 45B, 45D, 45DA, 45E and 46 of the > Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) ("the Act"). It is further alleged that their > conduct constitutes attempting to contravene such provisions, aiding, > abetting, counselling or procuring a person to contravene such provisions, > inducing or attempting to induce a person to contravene such provisions, being > directly or indirectly knowingly concerned in, or party to those > contraventions and conspiring with others to contravene such provisions. > > 9 It will be immediately appreciated that these are serious allegations. > The particulars of the conduct which are then set out are that the proposed > first to tenth respondents will do three things: > > * fail to allow the immediate recognition and resolution of all existing > non-colliding name spaces as currently recognised and resolved by the many > existing root service providers; > > * support the US government legacy root service as the sole and > exclusive root service provider for the whole Internet; > > * actively promote the extinguishment of all other, that is non-ICANN, > name spaces and all other non-US government legacy root service providers. > > 10 There is then an allegation that the Commission has failed to > investigate the allegations which the applicant has made in respect of the > proposed first to tenth respondents and has failed, accordingly, to prepare > any enforcement measures. > > 11 The relief which is sought in the application is a mandatory > injunction, interlocutory and final, ordering the proposed first to > tenth respondents forthwith to recognise and resolve all existing > non-colliding name spaces as currently recognised and resolved by the many > existing root service providers, and an injunction restraining them from any > conduct supporting the US government legacy root service as the sole and > exclusive root service provider for the whole Internet and actively promoting > the extinguishment of all other non-colliding name spaces and all other root > service providers. > > 12 A mandatory injunction, interlocutory and final, is also sought > against the Commission and one of its officers requiring them forthwith to > conduct an expeditious investigation into competition in the markets for > Internet root service providers and non-colliding name space service > providers. IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY V 176 of 2001 BETWEEN: LEN LINDON Applicant AND: INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS First Respondent LOUIS TOUTON Second Respondent VINT CERF Third Respondent ESTHER DYSON Fourth Respondent ICANN MELBOURNE MEETINGS HOST COMMITTEE Fifth Respondent au DOMAIN ADMINISTRATION LTD Sixth Respondent TONY STALEY Seventh Respondent GREG CREW Eighth Respondent CHRIS DISSPAIN Ninth Respondent PROFESSOR PETER GERRAND Tenth Respondent AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION Eleventh Respondent MICHAEL COSGRAVE Twelfth Respondent JUDGE: GOLDBERG J DATE OF ORDER: 9 MARCH 2001 WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE

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RE: A work item?
by Shaw, Robert 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

> => the merits are not only technical, the Internet simply > doesn't work with an incoherent root zone. I agree with you. I'm only an observer of what's happening. > I think one needs to reflect on the implications that > a few of the world's largest ISPs appear to have made > > => the I for these ISPs no more stands for Internet. History is full of examples of ISPs (e.g. AOL) who attempted to "garden wall" customers. Offering "enhanced" DNS is likely to be just one more business tool they use. It's just an observation - one may think it's wrong but that doesn't necessarily stop them from doing it. > If this percentage continues to grow, ICANN's ability to > control what goes into the DNS would seem to be constrained. > > => as a French-speaker I have still troubles with the word control > (French meaning is subtlely different)... So what is control > in your statement? It means that with any significant user base under an alternative root TLD, ICANN may be constrained from entering that TLD in the root - e.g., see http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42373,00.html "During recent ICANN meetings, Cerf said that the existence of new "unauthorized" domains could lead ICANN -- in order to reduce potential ambiguity -- not to approve any similar domain name itself." > => what about a parallel phone numbering system? (:-) Sovereigns control the allocation of the E.164 numbering plan. Robert -- Robert Shaw <robert.shaw(a)itu.int> ITU Internet Strategy and Policy Advisor International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int> Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

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RE: A work item?
by Shaw, Robert 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

> Despite the stated technical merits of a single root, > I think one needs to reflect on the implications that > a few of the world's largest ISPs appear to have made > a business decision to use a superset of the ICANN/US > Department of Commerce's root zone. > > Which big ones? I've never seen any official message about this. See www.new.net/about_us_partners.tp. Earthlink and Netzero have been listed as the US' second and third largest ISPs (according to http://www.ispworld.com/isp/TRI_census.htm) That's not even counting Excite@Home. > > It's claimed that the US had about 100 million Internet > users in December 2000. According to New.net's numbers > (which needs to be confirmed), about 16% of those can now > use their alternative root. > > I've seen various claims by various alternative root operators. None > have been confirmed by independent research as far as I know. New.net claims that 16 million users can resolve their TLDs based on their partnerships with ISPs (like I said, this needs to be confirmed independently). 16 million of 100 million is 16%. Robert -- Robert Shaw <robert.shaw(a)itu.int> ITU Internet Strategy and Policy Advisor International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int> Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

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RE: A work item?
by Shaw, Robert 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

Despite the stated technical merits of a single root, I think one needs to reflect on the implications that a few of the world's largest ISPs appear to have made a business decision to use a superset of the ICANN/US Department of Commerce's root zone. It's claimed that the US had about 100 million Internet users in December 2000. According to New.net's numbers (which needs to be confirmed), about 16% of those can now use their alternative root. If this percentage continues to grow, ICANN's ability to control what goes into the DNS would seem to be constrained. Robert -- Robert Shaw <robert.shaw(a)itu.int> ITU Internet Strategy and Policy Advisor International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int> Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

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A work item?
by Daniel Karrenberg 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

>X-Recipient: <exp-nanog(a)ripe.net> >Delivered-To: nanog-outgoing(a)merit.edu >X-Sender: hank(a)max.ibm.net.il >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 >Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:03:14 +0200 >To: nanog(a)merit.edu >From: Hank Nussbacher <hank(a)att.net.il> >Subject: Statements against new.net? >Sender: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu >X-Loop: nanog > > >Do any ISPs or web hosting companies have publically available statements on their web sites stating that they will not support the new new.net domains and why they won't? I am getting more requests from users to change our DNS root servers to support this and wanted to see what others tell their users. Any IETF/ICANN statement available? > >Thanks, >Hank > >

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New version of "server setup guide" posted
by Peter Koch 21 Jan '01

21 Jan '01

Dear fellow WG members, I have just submitted a new version of the "very long" document (the last in our trilogy) to the Internet Drafts archive. The name will be draft-koch-ripe-dns-setup-guide-01.txt. Please note that the version currrently available with that name is only the expiration notice for the "00" version submitted last February. Until the document will have shown up at the ID-archive and its mirrors you'll find a copy with this URL: http://www.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/~pk/dns/draft-koch-ripe-dns-setup-guide… Changes are mostly editorial and filling some gaps (those marked TBD earlier). I have now put in some words about IPv6, DNSSEC and IDN. The first three sections should be complete now, some text is still missing for the reverse mapping and 'popular mistakes' sections. What I'd like to discuss next week (if there's a time slot available): o Status of and further roadmap for the document Especially in the light of DNSSEC and, even more, IDN, it seems a bit difficult to prepare a single, fixed document to inform the target audience. A living document, i.e. a ``web site'' would be better and more up to date - if there's someone/somegroup periodically taking care. I think the IETF's experience with the "weird" wg teach some lesson here. On the other hand, just pointing everyone to the DNS resources directory and the IETF to find ``everything'' is not a helpful advice IMHO. o How to perform the "Grandma test"? Should we decide to go on with this document it should be exposed to some target audience people and *feedback* be collected and reported. Volunteers? Here are two further suggestions for the agenda: o Review of RIPE 203 Has anyone successfully referred customers to this document? Are their any changes suggested/needed? o DNS traffic and ~ distribution Does anyone have recent data on what percentage of backbone traffic is DNS traffic and how this DNS share is split between e.g. RR types? -Peter

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RE: PAB ISO 3166-based Top Level Domain Survey
by Shaw, Robert 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

We took it offline because IANA now has a more complete and up-to-date data at http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm. We did the survey because so much stuff was out of date at that time and in some cases, you couldn't even track down who was running a ccTLD. We gave all the survey data to IANA and it looks like they're doing a good job at keeping it fresh. Bob -- Robert Shaw <robert.shaw(a)itu.int> ITU Internet Strategy and Policy Advisor International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int> Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert F. Connelly [mailto:rconnell@psi-japan.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 7:18 AM > To: Robert Shaw > Cc: dns(a)iia.net.au; dns-wg(a)ripe.net; Barbara t.H. Farrell > Subject: Re: PAB ISO 3166-based Top Level Domain Survey > > > At 05:55 PM 6/19/98 +0200, Robert Shaw wrote: > >At http://www.itu.int/net/cctlds/nics.htm is a preliminary survey > >conducted by ITU of Internet ISO 3166-based top level domains. > > Dear Bob: Where has this file been moved? Regards, BobC >

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