Dear all, The ccNSO Secretariat was approached by ICANN’s Global Domains Division Technical Services and Registry Services Teams, with the request to share the message included below to the ccTLD community. = = = Dear Colleague, This is to notify you of a new ICANN Monitoring System API (MoSAPI) for generic and country code top-level domain (gTLD/ccTLD) registries planned for launch during the first half of 2018. You may consider using this service to monitor the health of your ccTLD DNS service in near real-time. The measurements are based on DNS service availability as defined in Specification 10 of the gTLD Base Registry Agreement<https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/agreement-approved...> (for example, the DNS service is considered to be up when all the IP addresses of at least two of the name servers for a given TLD are considered to be up). We recognize the gTLD Base Registry Agreement does not apply to ccTLDs, but as a service to the community, the monitoring data of the ccTLD is available to the ccTLD operator. The MoSAPI will include the ability to: · Monitor the state of a TLD. · Monitor the alarm status of a service. · Monitor the availability of a service. · Monitor the state of a particular incident. · Monitor the false positive flag of an incident. · Query a list of incidents for a service. · Query the list of measurements for an incident. · Query the details of a particular measurement. · Retrieve the list of IP addresses used in the probe node network. Beta testing of the new MoSAPI platform began 13 January 2018 with pilot users. Participation in the beta program is open to all registries. The technical specification of the system is here<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/mosapi-pilot-28nov17-en.pdf>. The beta program is intended for users to test the new interface. Feedback from the beta program will be used to address issues uncovered during testing prior to the production version launch. To request access for the MoSAPI beta program, please contact the ICANN Global Support Center using the contact details below. Please state the ccTLD for which you are requesting access. ICANN will contact the administrative and technical contacts of the ccTLD as listed in the IANA Root Database to validate the information and provide access. More information about MoSAPI is available by viewing this presentation and audio recording from the ICANN60 session here<https://schedule.icann.org/event/CbFm/icann-gdd-monitoring-system-api-mosapi...>. If you have questions or would like to provide beta testing feedback, please contact ICANN’s Global Support Center by email<mailto:globalsupport@icann.org?subject=Probe%20Node%20IP%20Addresses> or at one of the phone numbers found here<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/customer-support-2015-06-22-en>. Best regards, GDD Technical Services and Registry Services Teams Global Domains Division ICANN = = = Best regards, Joke Braeken ccNSO Policy Advisor joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> Follow @ccNSO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccNSO Follow the ccNSO on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccnso/ http://ccnso.icann.org