[Gnso-sc-budget] Question from SCBO First meeting - OI - Root Zone Mgmt Evolution

[Xavier J. Calvez]

Berry,
Thank you for flagging this question from Jimson.
I think it would be best to suggest to Jimson to publish it as a public comment so that we have a chance to answer it publicly.
In simple terms, the Singapore cluster is a cluster of servers establishing a copy of the ICANN managed root service (formally known as L-root) in Singapore. There are currently 3 other instances of the “L-root”, 2 in the US, 1 in Czech Republic and soon 1 in Singapore.

Thank you.

Best,

Xavier

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From: Gnso-sc-budget <gnso-sc-budget-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of "policy at bacinblack.com" <policy at bacinblack.com>
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 2:53 PM
To: "gnso-sc-budget at icann.org" <gnso-sc-budget at icann.org>
Subject: [Gnso-sc-budget] Question from SCBO First meeting - OI - Root Zone Mgmt Evolution

Hi Finance Team and All,

During our meeting a few weeks ago, Jimson asked a question in the chat, but we ran out of time for it to be addressed. Root Zone Management is probably one of the topic within ICANN that I know the least about. Can the Finance team assist with additional information?  The comment posted by Jimson:

“What is Singapore cluster with respect to the Operating Initiative to continue the Root Zone Management evolution?”

The Operating Initiative is located on pages 38 – 40. On page 173 that contains a table displaying the allocated budget amounts per OI. Item #6 for “Continue Root Zone Management evolution” with a $3M - $6M allocation contains text of “Hardware and connectivity costs based on Singapore cluster.”

I can only speculate that this is a refresh or a new instance of a root zone system, but that is the extent of my speculation.

Any information you have, will be helpful.

Thank you.

B

Berry Cobb
GNSO Policy Consultant
@berrycobb
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