<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Becky,<div><br></div><div>Some personal (non-authoritative) opinions intended to offer slight clarifications/comments:</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Burr, Becky <<a href="mailto:Becky.Burr@neustar.biz">Becky.Burr@neustar.biz</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Root</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Zone<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">File Change Request Management</span>—</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">The Contractor shall receive and process root zone </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">file<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">change requests </span>for <span style="letter-spacing:
-.1pt">
TLD</span>s as<span style="letter-spacing:3.0pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">expeditiously
</span>as<span style="letter-spacing:
-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">possible. This does not include a policy role at all. A new TLD is entered into the root only after the ICANN Board directs IANA to do that. Policy remains in ICANN,
not the IANA function.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This third sentence here is probably misplaced. While true, I presume you are talking here about root zone change requests (i.e., name server changes, delegation signer changes, or glue changes), not adding a new TLD (which is discussed under delegation/redelegation). To be explicit, the board does NOT direct IANA staff to do name server, delegation signer, and/or glue changes but does confirm staff has followed documented policy in the cases of delegations and re-delegations and directs staff to go ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>And yes, policy is not in the IANA function.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Root Zone
<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">“WHOIS” Change Request and Database Management</span> –</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Contractor shall maintain, update, and make publicly accessible
</span>a Root <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Zone “WHOIS” database with current and verified contact information for
</span>all <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">TLD registry operators. Again, this involves no policy role. ICANN makes policy on WHOIS, not IANA. IANA just follows ICANN</span>’<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">s orders.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed that there is no policy role. However, a slight ambiguity/complication here: not just ICANN's orders. Whois, the protocol, is defined by the IETF and the data schema associated with registration data is somewhat entangled with IETF requirements. For example, there is a requirement implicit in the new RDAP protocol (likely to eventually replace the Whois protocol) that the registration data include a pointer to the RDAP server. I believe the IETF will be instructing IANA (in the "IANA Considerations" section of the RDAP specification RFCs) to do whatever is necessary for that pointer is kept with the registration data.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Delegation
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">and </span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Redelegation </span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">of<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> Generic TLDs and </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Country Code</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> TLDs</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">.
Again, the role is administrative and not policy making. IANA adds or removes a TLD from the root only at the direction of the ICANN Board. It is responsible for documenting that the action was consistent with established ICANN policy, but has no role in
formulating that policy.</span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>True.</div></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Root
</span></b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Zone<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Automation--</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">The</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> Contractor</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
shall work with </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri;">NTIA<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> the Root Zone Maintainer, and collaborate with
</span>all<span style="letter-spacing:
-.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">interested and affected parties</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>to
<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">deploy </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">fully automated root zone managements system. This is an administrative/operations task, not a policy task.</span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Agreed that this is not policy and it is probably worth pointing out this has been done (as much as software is ever 'done').</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;"> </span><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Root Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
</span></b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Key<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Management—</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">The Contractor shall
</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri;">be<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">responsible </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:
-.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">the management </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">the root zone </span>Key<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Signing Key (KSK), including generation, publication, and use
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">signing
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:
-.35pt"> </span>Root <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
Key set. Again, DNSSEC policy is set by ICANN, informed by all stakeholders, the SSAC, etc. IANA simply administers the ICANN policy.</span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is true that IANA simply (for some value of the variable 'simply' :)) administers the policy, however the statement of DNSSEC policy (known as the DNSSEC Practice Statement or DPS) was a joint effort between ICANN staff and Verisign, with significant input from the community, designed to meet the requirements specified by NTIA (the actual DPS is at <a href="https://www.iana.org/dnssec/icann-dps.txt">https://www.iana.org/dnssec/icann-dps.txt</a>). </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Customer Service Complaint Resolution Process</span></b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> (CSCRP)</span></b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">—</span></b><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri;">The
<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Contractor shall work with </span>NTIA <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
and collaborate with </span>all <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">interested and affected parties to establish
</span>and <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">implement </span>a <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
process for IANA function customers </span>to <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
submit complaints </span>for timely <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">resolution that follows industry
</span>best <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">practice a and includes </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> reasonable time frame for resolution. This relates to complaints about IANA doing its technical job in a timely and competent fashion, not policy,
which remains with ICANN.</span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>True.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Perform Administrative Functions Associated
</span></b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Root Zone Management. F</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">acilitate
</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri;">and<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">coordinate the root </span>zone<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">of the domain name system, </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: 6px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">maintain </span>24<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt">
</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">hour-a-day/7 days-a-week operational coverage.</span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would agree that this is not policy (if that was your intent).</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div></div></div><link rel="File-List" href="file:///Users/justynaburr/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///Users/justynaburr/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_themedata.xml"><style>
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