the .ca registry yesterday, today, tomorrow
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The .CA Registry Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. wwTLD Session, Vancouver November 30, 2005 Norm Ritchie Director of Computer Operations Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Overview. A Bit of History CIRA Today CIRA Tomorrow Summary Questions and answers. CIRA History. 1987-2000 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The .CA RegistryYesterday, Today, Tomorrow
wwTLD Session, VancouverNovember 30, 2005
Norm RitchieDirector of Computer Operations
Canadian Internet Registration Authority
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Overview
• A Bit of History
• CIRA Today
• CIRA Tomorrow
• Summary
• Questions and answers
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CIRA History
• 1987-2000
- 1987: IANA delegated .ca to University of British Columbia
- Canadian Domain Name Consultative Committee
- Founding Board
- Canadian Internet Registration Authority incorporated in 1998
- 60,000 domains in December 2000
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CIRA HistoryFounding Principles
• Canadian Presence Requirements
- For Registrants
- For Registrars
• CIRA Dispute Resolution Policy
• Low barrier to entry for Registrars
• Competitive Registry
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CIRA HistoryFounding Principles
• Protection of the registrant directly from the registry
• Registrants are the members of the corporation
• Competitive Registrar distribution model
• Operate bilingually
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Keeping .CA Canadian
• CIRA takes Canadian Presence Requirements (CPR) and the integrity of registrant information seriously
• CIRA automatically verifies all registrations requests
• CIRA verifies all accepted registration requests manually
• CIRA investigates all complaints about Registrants
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CIRA Today
• Thick Registry that currently has over 600,000 domain names under management.
• Over 400,000 individual Registrants of which more than 300,000 are Members.
• Annual Elections and AGM
• Active in a Multitude of International Fora
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CIRA TodayCanadian Marketplace for Domains
• At June 2005
- .com 61%
- .ca 22%
- .net 5.90%
- .info 5.76%
- .org 3.80%
- .biz 1.40%
• Total 2.5M domains
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CIRA Today
• Approximately 95 Certified Registrars
• CIRA processes each day:
- 700 Registration requests
- 6,000 Public Web page requests
- 13,000 TBR requests
- 600,000 WHOIS queries
- 75M-100M DNS requests
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CIRA Today
• Our mission
- Operate the dot-ca Internet country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) as a key public resource for all Canadians in an innovative, open, and efficient manner
• Major Focus Areas
- Open and Transparent Processes
- Robust and Resilient Systems
- No Single Points of Failure
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CIRA Today - Making it Better
• ‘Always On’ Registry- Redundant Everything- Automated Monitoring Systems- Hot Backup Site
• Backups for Staff Positions
• Process Simplification
• Governance Reforms
• Quality Culture- Continuous Process Improvement- Service Excellence
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CIRA Tomorrow
• Cultural and Management- Quality, Quality, Quality
• Improving Existing Products and Services- Improve and simplify processes- CDRP review- Corporate governance reforms- WHOIS implementation- DNS Robustness- TBR- Performance Improvements
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CIRA Tomorrow
• Some New Products and Services- IDN- IPv6- Enum Tier 1A- DNS SEC- Registrar Tools and Business Metrics
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Summary
• Not unlike a business venture startup, CIRA is in a state of transition.
• Quality and Service are Paramount