DNS Questionnaire ================= 1. Who defines your policies? They are defined by a open committee called ITA-PE which coordinates e-mail activities in Italy. The committee includes individuals from most of the italian Service Providers and Academic Institutions. 2. How do you establish your naming policies? The agreements are reached finding consensus (avoiding votes) after discussion either on a mailing list, ita-pe@nis.garr.it, or during quaterly meetings. 3. What legal status, if any, do your decisions/policies have? None for the time being, but we are expecting formal recognition from Italian PTT Ministry and UNINFO (ISO Italian branch). 4a. Would you register sub.tld (e.g. co.uk, ac.uk etc)? No. b. Do you have geographic subdomains in the tld (e.g. state.tld, county.tld)? Yes, hierarchical administrative geographycal domains c. Do you have different categories of 2nd level domains (e.g."public" ones like "co.at" and "private" ones like "alcatel.at") in parallel? Yes, administrative geographycal 2nd and 3rd level domains are public. d. If you have "public" 2nd level domains, what are the rules for running such a domain (e.g. everybody's registration has to be accepted for free if it fits into this category)? Public domains are delegated to an organization wishing to provide a free name service in its region. Delegation could be withdrawn if the delegated organization does not properly administer the geographical domain. e. If so, how do you split your tld? Hierarchical administrative geographical domains as follows: 2nd level - Regions registered with both full name and 3-letter shortname. (e.g. Lombardia and LOM, Toscana and TOS, etc) - Provincies with both fullname and 2-letter shortname. (e.g. Napoli and NA, Milano and MI, etc) 3rd level - Cities with fullname only, under their province. (e.g. Capri.NA.it, etc). Note that cities giving their name to the province do not register also as 3rd level. 5a. Would you register domain.tld (e.g. microsoft.uk)? Yes, if compliant with the registration rules. b. Would you register domain.sub.tld (e.g. microsoft.co.uk)? No. Only if sub.tld is already registered, then we accept to register (for information purposes only) its subdomains. 6a. Do you allow individuals to register names or just organisations? Just organizations. b. If you differentiate between individuals and organisations, what are your criteria? An organization should have legal status as such. 7a. Do you require proof of identity? Yes. b. If so, how do you prove the identity of a requestor? We ask the requestor to sign his acceptance of the rules on company head paper and we trust a number of known ISPs who actually submit the request on behalf of the requestor. 8. Do you register domains only for organisations/individuals located in your country or do you allow anyone to register in your tld? Only organizations with legal status in Italy. 9a. Do you allow a single organisation to register more than one domain? No, with some exceptions (e.g. legally registered newspapers and magazines belonging to the same publisher, some telematics services, etc) b. If so, do you limit the number of domains registered by a single organisation? n/a 10a.To whom would you allocate well known names like digital.tld/ digital.sub.tld? We ask, but without enforcement, that the domain name should be as much similar as possible to the legal name of the requesting organization. If not we first recall the rule "one name per organization" and briefly try to convince the requestor not to use a well known name to avoid conflicts in the future. b.What criteria do you use when deciding whether or not to allow a name? Names are allowed except when they are in the set of the reserved names or shorter then 3 characteres (at 2nd level) or of 2 characters (under any other "public" domain). 11a.How do you arbitrate between two or more claims to the same name? We inform both parties of the claim asking if one of them could renounce. If none renounces we give the name to the first requestor and mark it as challenged. We leave to them resolve their conflict as they wish. We query at regular intervals for both parties to resolve the challenge, in any form they wish, to solve the situation: bilateral agreement, arbitration commettee, civil law judgment, ... We also inform both parties when very similar names may cause ambiguity. b.Who is responsible for the arbitration? Any Italian legal entity. 12a.Do you allow the registration of geographical names (cities, countries, rivers, etc)? Yes but regions, provinces and cities are special cases (see 4.b,c,d,e). b.If so, would you register one for an individual organisation? Yes, but we briefly try to discourage the requestor. 13a.Do you have any names which may not be registered (e.g. names in bad taste, names of protocols, etc)? Names shorter than 3 characters (2nd level domains) or 2 characters (other levels). Names of protocols/services (tcp, finger, ftp, telnet, etc) and ambiguos names (email, www, ecc). 14a.Do you run secondary nameservice for subdomains of the tld? Yes, only for 2nd level subdomains (e.g. cnr.it, fiat.it, ecc) and 2nd and 3rd level administrative geographical domains. b.If so, is this optional/mandatory and do you charge for the service? Optional, no charge. Mandatory for public geographical domains. 15a.Do you check for a running nameserver at the time of request? Yes, for at least a couple of them b.Do you check for a running nameserver at regular intervals after the name has been delegated? Yes, because we check for the reachability of each postmaster@<domain>.it. 16. Do you allow the reservation of names (i.e. no running service)? No 17a.Do you charge for reservation/registration of names? No, at the moment. Policy to be modified b.If so, is it a one off fee, an annual subscription or both? n/a c.How much is the fee? n/a 18a.Do you remove unused domain names? Yes. b.If so, how do you define an unused domain? A domain that is cancelled by the admin-c or that is no longer serviced by any Service Provider. A domain which results inactive for more than 6 consecutive months. 19. Do you think that the current system you operate will be changed over the next 12 months? Yes, completion and update of existing rules and policies are expected soon. 20. Do you accept requests for domains from providers only, from anyone or from a different group only?

From Providers only.

21. What resources are allocated to the administration of the domain? 3 FTE, 2 servers, 3 workstations. 22. Do you have any automation of the registration/delegation process? Yes, partial (e-mail robot). Daniele Vannozzi Phone: +39 50 593280 GARR-NIS Phone NIS: +39 50 593360 c/o CNUCE - Istituto del CNR Fax: +39 50 904052 Via Santa Maria 36 Telex: 500371 - CNUCE 56100 Pisa - Italy E-mail: vannozzi@nis.garr.it