The ccNSO working group “Secure Email Communication for cccTLD Incident Response” (SECIR) held its second face-to-face meeting at ICAN52 in Singapore on Mon Feb 9. We discussed the following topics:
(1) The way forward on inviting additional ccTLDs to the TLD-OPS list. Now that TLD-OPS is fully functional and now that we have published the TLD-OPS documentation, we agreed to move forward and invite the next rounds of ccTLDs to join the list as
of Feb 16. We decided to invite ccTLDs alphabetically and to allow three instead of two contact persons per ccTLD to join the list. The documentation for the TLD-OPS list is available from the ccNSO website at: http://ccnso.icann.org/resources/tld-ops-secure-communication.htm
(2) The TLD-OPS subscription procedure. We concluded that the subscription procedure we developed appears to be lightweight enough because we did not encounter any major issues when we invited our test batch of
11 ccTLDs. The procedure enables a ccTLD’s IANA Admin Contact to appoint/authenticate the folks that are responsible for the overall security and stability at their ccTLD, which are the only allowed members of the list. The ccTLDs in the test batch that went
through the procedure are: .br, .ca, .co, .dk, .jp, .nl, .tz and .za (a 73% success rate). We agreed to fine-tune the instructions that ccTLDs receive to further smoothen the subscription process and to record these
updates as a minor update of the TLD-OPS documentation
(3) The WG planning until ICANN53. We decided to write a two-page summary of the TLD-OPS documentation, which the members of the WG and potentially members of the broader ccTLD community can handout at meetings and conferences. In addition, we decided
to organize two webinars to further inform the community about the purpose and operation of the TLD-OPS list. Finally, we discussed the planing of the WG’s final report, which is the WG’s fourth and final deliverable. Our goal is to finish it by ICANN53 in
Buenos Aires, thus successfully closing the WG. The Final Report will contain a proposal for a follow-up WG that will implement version 2 of the ccTLD Contact Repository.
After the WG meeting, the chair met with the chair of SSAC (Patrik Fältström) and ICANN’s head of External Security, Stability & Resiliency (John Crain) to inform them about the TLD-OPS
list and its status. They believed TLD-OPS will contribute to the security and stability of the domain name industry and we therefore agreed that the chair will keep ICANN in the loop in the coming few months on the progress of the WG.
Our next WG meeting will be conference call, which will take place in the week of Feb 23.
SECIR members: Erwin Lansing (.dk), Jacques Latour (.ca), Frederico Neves (.br), Abibu Ntahigiye (.tz), Geng-Da Tsai (.tw), and Cristian Hesselman (.nl, chair)