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<div>I'm forwarding this as I think it may be relevant to this list. ICANN org is seeking feedback from the technical community on the new Registry System Testing (RST) specifications. If you are a current or prospective gTLD registry operator or Registry Services
Provider, or have subject matter expertise on the same, your input would be appreciated!</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date:
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear IRT members,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">An IRT meeting focused specifically on the Registry System Testing (RST) will be held on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>13 February 2024</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>14:00-15:00
UTC</b>. For more information, please refer to the meeting page:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/boPxDg" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://community.icann.org/x/boPxDg</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As you may be aware, as part of our Next Round activities, ICANN org has been working on a new Registry System Testing (RST)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="EN-US">service<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>(RST
v2.0), which includes a new set of test specifications and a RESTful API that will fully automate the process of testing, for both the RSP Evaluation Program, as well as Pre-Delegation Testing and post-delegation RST. Details of the new test specifications
and the API were provided during ICANN78 in Hamburg[1] and the IRT RST Sub-Track Meeting #1 on 14 December 2023[2]. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Since those meetings, we have made significant progress on developing the test specifications and the API specification, both of which have been published on GitHub:<br>
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<a href="https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<a href="https://icann.github.io/rst-api-spec/rst-api-spec.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://icann.github.io/rst-api-spec/rst-api-spec.html</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As we are approaching the anticipated Public Comment period (planned to begin at the end of March) for the RST v2.0 project, we are inviting members of the IRT and the TLD technical
community to provide their feedback on the test and API specifications.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The RST test specifications are broken down into ten separate test plans[3], each covering a particular scenario. For RSP evaluation, the relevant plans are the Main RSP Evaluation
Test, IDN Test (RSP Evaluation), DNS RSP Evaluation Test, DNSSEC RSP Evaluation Test, and SRS Gateway RSP Evaluation Test.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Each test plan uses one or more test suites[4], each of which covers a different registry service, such as EPP, RDAP, DNS, DNSSEC, Data Escrow, etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Each test suite uses one or more test cases that test a specific component of that registry service.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Each test case is tagged with a “Maturity” level, which is one of “ALPHA”, “BETA” or “GAMMA”. As of writing, most test cases are at BETA level or higher: while we welcome all feedback,
we encourage you to avoid spending too much time reviewing the ALPHA-level cases, as these are the ones most likely to change in the future.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To provide stability and predictability, we have moved to a weekly release process, where the test specifications are only updated once per week (on a Wednesday). Each release will
be accompanied by a Change Log, which can be found:<br>
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<a href="https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html#change-log" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html#change-log</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you are interested in seeing the most up to date version of the specifications, they are available in the “dev” branches of the GitHub repositories:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://github.com/icann/rst-test-specs/tree/dev" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://github.com/icann/rst-test-specs/tree/dev</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<a href="https://github.com/icann/rst-api-spec/tree/dev" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://github.com/icann/rst-api-spec/tree/dev</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Submitting Feedback<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We request to use GitHub to submit feedback. Each of the above repositories has its own issue tracker that can be used to submit feedback. You will need a GitHub account in order to
submit issues.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Current system<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">For your reference, you may find the test specifications of the current RST system in the following link:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/registry-system-testing" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://www.icann.org/resources/registry-system-testing</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=264372276" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=264372276</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[2]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=282951922" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=282951922</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[3]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html#test-plans" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html#test-plans</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[4]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html#test-suites" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html#test-suites</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Gustavo, Gavin, and Elisa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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