ccNSO Meeting in Brussels, Belgium

 

Abstracts

IANA Update - Kim Davies, IANA

Summary

Updates regarding IANA Root Zone Management, including updates on two major projects - delegating IDN ccTLDs, and signing the root with DNSSEC.

Marketing Research on .za - Vika Mpisane, .za

Summary

The .ZA market survey presentation will cover the key outcomes of the inaugural market survey of the .ZA namespace conducted by ZADNA in late 2009 to early 2010. It will show what key questions were asked and how the survey audience overall feel about .ZA as a brand and South Africa¹s online identity.

Marketing of .my - Shahril Halimi Omar, .my

Summary

The challenges and opportunities in implementing effective marketing strategy from .my DOMAIN REGISTRY's perspective. We will share .my DOMAIN REGISTRY's experience and strategies in an effort to market .my domain names to the public and also look at the role of channel management and the new media.

Anti-Phishing Working Group Update ­ Rod Rasmussen, APWG

Summary

APWG researchers will present the latest APWG Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 2nd Half 2009. Trends covered include per TLD usage, subdomain services, phishing site up-times, amongst others. One phishing group called Avalanche utilized fast-flux domain registrations at many TLDs to launch two-thirds of all phishing attacks, and community response successes and failures will be examined.

Law Enforcement Update - Paul Hoare, SOCA e-Crime

Summary

An overview of the Law Enforcement RAA amendments, the rationale behind and the process to reach the current position. Followed by a discussion session with the ccNSO to assess their opinions on this submission, the process for submitting it and how some of the main priniciples could potentially be adopted by the ccTLDs (or not as the case may be).

ccNSO Review Results - Hervé Rannou, ITEMS International, Tom Mackenzie, ITEMS International, Jean-Jaques Subrenat, ICANN Board

Summary

Presentation by ITEMS International of the main findings and recommendations of their Organisational Review of the ccNSO, followed by a Q&A session.

ENISA Study on the Cost of Implementing DNSSEC - Panagiotis Saragiotis, ENISA

Summary

Deploying a new technology requires investment in software, hardware and human resources. In the case of DNSSEC the cost of these investments is not well defined and this uncertainty can hinder its deployment. This study analysed the costs involved in deploying DNSSEC in a registry, registrar, zone operator or recursive resolver operator.

The Real Cost of Implementing DNSSEC for a Registry

Summary

The DNSSEC system rely on digital signatures and must have the same attributions of the signature by hand: demonstrate authenticity, identity of the signer and integrity of the signed transaction. All rules rely on trust, and trust must be gained through clear and documented processes and by third party authentication, like a notary public is need it to authenticate the signatures of a physical contract or document. The investment need it to create the chain of trust and processes related is many times more than the investment in technology and infrastructure.

Community Initiatives on DNSSEC - Hiro Hotta, .jp

Summary

A registry is just one of the entities who make DNSSEC available. To make the introduction and deployment of DNSSEC a reality, various community sectors such as registries, regisgtrars, DNS providers, and vendors cooperate in testing and deploying DNSSEC in Japan. This activity will be introduced in the presentation.