Thanks for the clarification Naela much appreciated. Brett -- Brett Carr Manager DNS and Network Engineering Nominet UK From: Naela Sarras <naela.sarras@iana.org> Date: Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 23:21 To: Brett Carr <brett.carr@nominet.uk>, Maria Otanes <maria.otanes@icann.org>, "ICANN-CSC@icann.org" <ICANN-CSC@icann.org> Subject: Re: [ICANN-CSC] Agenda: CSC December Meeting 25, Monday, 12 December, 19:00-21:00 UTC Hi Brett, The request from July is a category V request. Category V requests are defined as follows: “Other non-routine change requests. IANA is required to process change requests that may have special handling requirements, or require additional documentary evidence or additional clarifications from the customer or third parties, that do not afford them the ability to automate. These scenarios include, but are not necessarily limited to: i. Customers that require requests to be handled outside the online self-service platform, such as those lodging change requests through the exchange of postal mail; ii. Customers that have placed special handling instructions on file with IANA, or have otherwise asked for special handling for a request that deviates from the normal process, that must be executed manually by IANA staff; iii. Unique legal or regulatory encumbrances that must be satisfied that require additional processing; iv. Removing a TLD from service (e.g. retirement or revocation); v. Changes that relate to the operation of the root zone itself, including changing the Root Key Signing Key, altering the set of authoritative name servers for the root zone (e.g. the “root servers”), and changes to the “root hints” file. These types of changes should be categorized distinctly from those requests for which there is a clear regularly conducted process that adheres to the typical processing path and may be removed from the SLE pool. “ In the case of the July request at 210 hours, this was a TLD removal type request, Category V.iv. The TLD operator asked that the TLD removal be executed at a specified time and date. This was communicated to the root zone maintainer when it was submitted for implementation so they held it in the queue until the requested date and time. Best regards, Naela From: ICANN-CSC <icann-csc-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Brett Carr <brett.carr@nominet.uk> Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 10:26 PM To: Maria Otanes <maria.otanes@icann.org>, "ICANN-CSC@icann.org" <ICANN-CSC@icann.org> Subject: Re: [ICANN-CSC] Agenda: CSC December Meeting 25, Monday, 12 December, 19:00-21:00 UTC Hi, Reviewing this months report a question came to mind, I’m sure this has been asked before but for the benefit of “new members”, could somebody please clarify: On Page 21: Root Zone Publication. What kind of root zone modifications fall under “Other Changes”? and what was the cause of the 200 hour plus spike in July. Thanks Brett -- Brett Carr Manager DNS and Network Engineering Nominet UK From: ICANN-CSC <icann-csc-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Maria Otanes <maria.otanes@icann.org> Date: Wednesday, 12 December 2018 at 17:29 To: "ICANN-CSC@icann.org" <ICANN-CSC@icann.org> Subject: [ICANN-CSC] Agenda: CSC December Meeting 25, Monday, 12 December, 19:00-21:00 UTC Dear CSC, Please find the agenda for the December CSC meeting in the Wiki space below and attached. The next call will be held next Monday, 17 December, at 19:00-21:00 UTC. The Wiki agenda page can be found here: https://community.icann.org/x/6QX_BQ Documents that will be discussed on the call can also be found in this Wiki page. Best, Ria _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Ria Otanes Secretariat Operations Coordinator Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: +1 202 249 7540 Mobile: +1 202 679 5185 Skype: maria.otanes.icann Washington, DC Office | UTC-5