InterNIC Guardian Object

Mark Kosters

Table of Contents

• Slides from this talk
• Stan Barber's Notes
• May 1996 NANOG Home Page

Stan Barber's Notes

Statistics

Phone calls has increase dramatically (9000 calls per week currently). There is a good coorelation between backlog and phone calls. Hostmaster continues to increase. Currently 100,000 items per month, or about 3Gb per month.

Domain Name Growth continues to grow wildly.

IP allocations has been pretty flat. The number of requests have gone down since Sprint's filters have been in place.

whois hits are over 12 million during the last month. There are currently five machines servicing this function.

a.root-servers.net has been attacked by bogus-query attempts and those queries continue. The dips are over the weekends and peak on Tuesdays.

Technical

Two lines have been requsitioned from MCI. Two from UUNET. The BBN Planet line is being rehomed. There is a FDDI backbone with the various machines used in productions.

Autoreg is 11 months old. 80% are never seen by a human. 50% are not seen by a human. Common errors: Changing IP address of server, not listing handle when already registered.

Guardian

• Spec frozen in January 1996
• Testing underway
• Implementation rollout June 15
• Cutoff date one month from rollout
  • Version 2 templates will be removed one month from rollout date
  • Version 3 will only be used at this time.

Rwhois

• Development frozen for the last 1.5 years
• Scott Williamson is coming back to work on it now.

Billing

• 60% choose paper invoices
• about 50% or the remaining email invoices bounce
• 30-40% payment rate
• 15 day notices sent to billing contact and postal mail to domain holder -- ATTN: President
• 0 day notice and domain put on hold starting on June 7. Email will be sent to everyone.
  • Noone has been cutoff yet.
  • When are planning to double your phone lines? Will it coincide with these dates? No.
• Renewals
  • 60 day notices being sent as of 1 May 1996. No domains in cutoff window.

Legal

• NSI is named in four suits.
  • Contributing to trademark infringements
    • Knowldgenet (dismissed from suit)
    • Prestone (dismissed from suit)
  • Against the policy itself
    • Roadrunner Computer Systems (litigation pending)
  • NSI compliance with a Court Order
    • Data Concepts
      • erroneous belief that NSI needs to be named. NSI will comply with court order even if not named

Operational Policies

• Policy development
  • Under legal review
  • Legal Delegation Policy
    • Draft has been distributed and is under legal review
    • RFC-1466bis

Future

• On-line payment system -- under analysis (before 4Q 1996)
• SWIP to handle classless assignments -- (before September 1996)
• ITG -- InterNIC Template Generator -- (before July 1996)
• Nameserver Infrastructure improvements -- (happening now)
• Additional Policy Development
  • How many domain names can a single company register?
  • What about lewd and offensive names?

Questions and Answers

Comment: The MIL NIC handles are not the same as the InterNIC NIC handles. There should be a specific notice to this effect.

Mark mentions:There is a list called domain-policy for discussion of registration. Anyone may subscribe.

Is there a way to find out if your domain is about to be put on hold for non-payment on-line? Not yet.

Is there a way to find out what has been paid and what hasn't been paid? No, not yet.