[ALAC] [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- NGPC Resolution for Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions

Rinalia Abdul Rahim rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 00:27:13 UTC 2013


Thanks, Julie. Appreciate the explanation. Any idea/info/guess as to how
long a study with a more comprehensive view of risks would take (how long
did the Interisle study take?) and when one can expect a management
framework to be in place?

Rinalia
 On Oct 10, 2013 8:06 AM, "Julie Hammer" <julie.hammer at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi Rinalia,
>
> I have not had a chance yet to read these documents in depth but have had
> a cursory look at them.
>
> The Interisle study had a short time frame to deliver its findings and
> only looked at one possible measure of risk, namely  the number of queries
> at the root level for the new gTLD.  The study itself acknowledged that
> this only provides one perspective of the potential risk.
>
> In fact, this was also mentioned in our *ALAC STATEMENT ON **ICANN
> PROPOSAL TO MITIGATE NAME COLLISION RISKS*<https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Proposal+to+Mitigate+Name+Collision+Risks+Workspace>
> :
>
> "...the study, its conclusions, and ICANN's risk mitigation
> recommendations are based on analysis of a limited data set of query volume
> metrics ie how many times queries occur for a proposed new gTLD. As
> acknowledged in the study, such metrics are only one perspective of risk
> and do not reflect other risk that may arise through complex interactions
> between the DNS and applications at the root level."* *
>
> This new study is tasked to come up with additional measures of risk and
> the associated severity of their consequences and formulate them into a
> 'name collision occurrence management framework' to allow a more realistic
> risk assessment and to propose corresponding risk mitigation strategies.
>
> Hope this helps.  Apologies if you already understood all this.
>
> Cheers,  Julie
>
> On 10/10/2013, at 2:18 AM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <
> rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Curious this. A study results in another study in order to develop a
> management framework for name collisions. Why not just go from one study to
> the management framework? Can someone explain it to me so that I understand
> the situation better?
>
> Rinalia
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> Date: Oct 9, 2013 11:41 PM
> Subject: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- NGPC Resolution for Addressing
> the Consequences of Name Collisions
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> http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-08oct13-en.htm
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> ________________________________
> NGPC Resolution for Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions
>
> 8 October 2013
>
> At its 18 May 2013 meeting, the ICANN Board adopted a resolution to
> commission a study to identify the levels of potential impact posed by each
> applied-for new gTLD on the use of TLDs that are not currently delegated at
> the root level of the public DNS.
>
> The study, "Name Collision in the DNS," together with a proposal to manage
> the risks identified in the study, was published for public comment from 5
> August 2013 to 17 September 2013. During the public comment period, 75
> comments were received. Based on the public comments, staff updated the
> proposal to manage the risks identified in the study. The report of these
> public comments is available at:
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-name-collision-05aug13/.
>
> The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on 28 September 2013<
>
> http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-28sep13-en.htm
> >
> to review and discuss a proposal on how to deal with name collisions. On 7
> October 2013<
>
> http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-07oct13-en.htm
> >,
> the NGPC met again and approved an updated proposal, titled "New gTLD
> Collision Occurrence Management Plan<
>
> http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-annex-1-07oct13-en.pdf
> >,"
> [PDF, 840 KB] to mitigate the risks of potential name collisions caused by
> the introduction of new gTLDs.
>
> The Collision Occurrence Management Plan directs staff to undertake an
> additional study to develop a name collision occurrence management
> framework. The framework will include appropriate parameters and processes
> to assess both probability and severity of harm resulting from the
> occurrence of name collisions. Examples of the parameters might include
> number of DNS requests, type of DNS requests, type of queries, diversity of
> query source and appearances in internal name certificates. The framework
> will specify a set of collision occurrence assessments and corresponding
> mitigation measures, if any, that ICANN or TLD applicants may need to
> implement per second level domain name (SLD) seen in the "day in the life
> of the Internet" (DITL) dataset.
>
> Additionally, the plan provides a registry operator with the option to
> proceed to delegation prior to receiving its SLD collision occurrence
> assessment report (subject to established processes and procedures). If the
> registry operator chooses this alternative path to delegation, it must
> initially block all SLDs that appear in the DITL dataset while the
> assessment is conducted.
>
> An additional feature of the plan requires establishment of a process by
> each TLD operator to enable an affected party(ies) to report and request
> the blocking of an SLD that causes demonstrably severe harm as a
> consequence of name collision occurrences. This process is intended to
> mitigate the risk that collision occurrences from additional SLDs not
> observed in the study dataset could have severe impact.
>
> The plan also includes an outreach campaign targeted to potentially
> affected parties to help them identify and manage the origins (causes) of
> name collision occurrences in their networks. As part of the outreach
> campaign, ICANN, under the direction of the President and CEO, will invite
> and collaborate with relevant parties and members of the community that
> share the same interest in making progress in this issue.
>
> At its 7 October meeting, the NGPC also recommended to the ICANN Board that
> the issue of name collisions be monitored by the Board's Risk Committee and
> reviewed periodically, and that ICANN work with the community in developing
> a long-term plan to retain and measure root-server data.
>
> For more information about the NGPC, please visit:
> http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/new-gtld.
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