Forwarded on behalf of the SECIR Working Group Chair, Cristian Hesselman. == Summary SECIR Conference Call #12 The ccNSO working group ³Secure Email Communication for cccTLD Incident Response² (SECIR) held its twelfth conference call on Fri Mar 20. We discussed the following topics: (1) TLD-OPS status. The number of ccTLDs that have subscribed to the TLD-OPS list has grown to 77 from 29 since our last conference call on Feb 24. As before, the ccNSO Secretariat will continue to invite ccTLDs and the WG therefore again requests all IANA Admin Contacts to regularly check their admin email address. (2) Rules of engagement. We first discussed the feedback we received during and after our two webinars of Wed Mar 11on the TLD-OPS ³rules of engagement², which the community thought could be improved in terms of clarity. We decided to refine the draft set of rules in the coming weeks, for instance by adding an example for each of the TLD-OPS color levels. (3) Sharing of incident information. During the webinars, several members of the community indicated they would like to share incident information on the list, for instance pertaining to botnets. While the main purpose of the TLD-OPS list is to act as a contact repository for ccTLDs, we decided that sharing incident information on the list would likely to be useful if the information is relevant for a relatively large number of subscribed ccTLDs. An example we discussed was a ccTLD wanting to notify its peers of an ongoing dictionary attack on the ccTLD¹s name servers because the attack might soon ³hop² to another ccTLD. If a ccTLD wants to share incident information with one or a few ccTLDs, then that ccTLD should use a different channel and not use the TLD-OPS list. We will incorporate these guidelines in the in the TLD-OPS overview document and in the TLD-OPS rules of engagement. Our next conference call will take place in the week of Apr 8. TLD-OPS homepage: http://ccnso.icann.org/resources/tld-ops-secure-communication.htm SECIR homepage: http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/secir.htm SECIR members: Erwin Lansing (.dk), Jacques Latour (.ca), Frederico Neves (.br), Abibu Ntahigiye (.tz), Geng-Da Tsai (.tw), and Cristian Hesselman (.nl, chair) Cristian Hesselman Manager SIDN Labs