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<div class="">On behalf of the Caucus Work Party on Root Server Naming Schemes, please find the draft Technical Analysis of the Naming Scheme used for Individual Root Servers for your review.</div>
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<div class="">The Work Party has considered the comments of the RSSAC Caucus and considers them resolved in the current document. Specifically, the Work Party would like to draw the reviewers’ attention to the 3rd paragraph of the Introduction that describes
the motivation for this study.<br class="">
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This review will last until January 4th, 2017(2 weeks). Please send any comments you have to this list.<br class="">
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Andrew</div>
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<div class="">On Oct 14, 2016, at 14:41, Steve Sheng <<a href="mailto:steve.sheng@icann.org" class="">steve.sheng@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span class="">Dear RSSAC Caucus,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class=""> On behalf of the Caucus work party on root server naming schemes, attached please find the draft Technical Analysis of the Naming Scheme used for Individual Root Servers for your review.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The work was charted by the RSSAC on 19 July 2015 (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_rssac-2Droot-2Dservers-2Dwork-2Dstatement-2D09jul15-2Den.pdf-29&d=DQMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=O16Ko7V_SvDE5jZHxFQsUEzduEwmIp0AxPl2Gzy-KTc&m=--el4CfBGSsHJlQCsjYBe1IWmeFpJMiih1v6EkKTzJ8&s=e023V4sMiP0QDUK5o6nFVeOfad1PZDEHYmerqVM1zTA&e=" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 76, 180);" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-root-servers-work-statement-09jul15-en.pdf)[icann.org]</span></a>.
The work party was led by Joe Abley, and subsequently by John Bond. It was tasked to:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span class="">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Document the technical
history of the names assigned to individual root servers since the creation of the Root Server System;<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span class="">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Consider changes to the
current naming scheme, in particular whether the names assigned to individual root servers should be moved into the root zone from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://root-servers.net/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">ROOT-SERVERS.NET</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>zone;<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span class="">3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Consider the impact on
the priming response of including DNSSEC signatures over root server address records;<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span class="">5.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Make a recommendation
to root server operators, root zone management partners, and ICANN on whether changes should be made, and what those changes should be.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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The review period for this draft report is 30 days. Please provide your feedback / comments / concerns to the list<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">no later than 13 November 2016.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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