Workshop Overview

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Workshop Overview Registry Model

• Model by Jaap Akkerhuis
• Related by Daniel Karrenberg

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Day 1 (Monday)

• Workshop introduction
• Inroduction to the registry model
• Atendees describe their current ccTLD operation
• FreeBSD Operating System
• Overview
• installation
• exercises

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Day 2 (Tuesday)

• Overview/Review of DNS
• BIND 9 Installation
• DNS (Authoritative, Secondary, Zone transfers,
  TSIG, RNDC, etc...)

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Day 3 (Wednesday)

• Registration process registry vs. registrar vs.
  registrant
• Current policies and procedures for working with
  IANA and ICANN
• Re-delegations
• Registry Management Best Practices
• Lots of Discussion about these things -)

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Day 4 (Thursday)

• Exercises secondary name servers
• Tinyreg a demonstration registry system
• Recap of all elements of a registry
• All the things you want to know and we forgot -)
• All the things we did not get around to -) -)

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Functions of a Registry
T technical data (zone content) P policy data
(local community policies, IANA policies) S
social data (contact info, billing data etc.)
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Second Level Domains
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Variation on the Model
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Functions inside a Registry
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Registration Process

• Primary function
• interface to the client (registrar, registrant)
• Secondary function
• Enforcement of local policies and regulations,
  e.g.
• name valid and unique
• registration number (if required by government
  etc.)
• Billing information
• Methods Web services, email client, EPP, Fax,
  phone etc.

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Registry Data Store

• Internal data store
• Archive of transactions
• Maintains consistency between the blocks
• Source for management information, statistics,
  billing etc.
• Internal social data

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Whois Service

• Public/external data store
• Classic port 43
• Via web interface
• New Crisp
• Implementation of local privacy rules
• Public social data

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DNS Service

• DNS BIND / NSD .
• Authoritative DNS
• Primary/secondary
• Caching DNS as service (optional)
• Reverse DNS (pointer to RIRs)

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Technical Infrastructure

• Hardware
• Connectivity, Routing
• Operating System
• Editor, scripts
• Registration Tools